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15 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus
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idea to sail west to reach the East
found a whole new continent! born in Genoa, Italy~1451 |
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Marco Polo
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lived during middle ages!! wrote a book about his travels!
this book inspired explorers like Christopher Columbus |
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Bartholameu Dias
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Portuguese explorer. discoverer of the Cape of Storms! witch is now the Cape of Good Hope
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Vasco da Gama
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sailed to Calicut~proved the all water route to the Indies! portuguese explorer.
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Portuguese explorer. Explored the coast of South Africa for Portugal. the new lands were named after him. (America)
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Ferdinand Megellan
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1st to circumnavigate the globe. killed in the Phillipines.
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John Cabot
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English explorer. explored the North East of North America
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Sir Francis Drake
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(English Pirate) captain and defeated of the Spanish Armada
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Henry Hudson
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Dutch~ claimed the Hudson River and the Hudson Bay
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Prince Henry of Portugal
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started a school for sailors. in 1418.
they studied geography and astronomy so they could navigate the seas |
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Sir Isaac Newton
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discoverer of gravity
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Francis Bacon
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the creator of the scientific method
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Copernicus
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made the theory that the Earth spins
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Johannes Kepler
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prover of copericus' theory
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Galileo Galilee
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telescope. most important supporter of copernics' theory
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