Explorers

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Explorers
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Marco Polo

• Venetian trader and
• explorer
• Gained fame for his
• worldwide travels,
• recorded in the book
• Il Milione or The
• Travels of Marco
• Polo
• one of the first Westerners
• to travel the Silk Road
• visit the Great Khan

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Bartolomeu Dias

• Portuguese explorer
• who sailed around the
• Cape of Good Hope,
• the southern tip of
• Africa, in 1488 the first
• European known to
• do so since ancient
• times.

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Prince Henry

• He became aware of
• profit possibilities in
• the Saharan trade
• routes and with
• expanding Portuguese
• trade

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Vasco De Gama

• The first person
• to sail directly from
• Europe to India

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Alphonso de Albuquerque

• Portuguese naval general
• Responsible for building
• the Portuguese Castle on
• island of Hormuz
• He became the second
• viceroy of the State of
• India, a position he would hold
• until his death.

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Christopher Columbus

• A navigator maritime explorer
• credited as the discoverer
• of the Americas.
• History places great
• significance on his first
• voyage of 1492, he did not
• actually reach the mainland
• until his third voyage in 1498.
• the period before 1492 is known
• as Pre-Columbian

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Santa Maria
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Amerigo Vespucci

• Italian Merchant, explorer
• Cartographer explorered
• east of South America
• America named after him

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

• Spanish Explorer
• Marches through Panama and becomes the first
  European to see the Pacific Ocean.

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Ferdinand Magellan

• First to circumnavigate the globe.

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Hernando Cortez

• conquistador
• who became famous
• for leading the military
• expedition that initiated
• the Spanish Conquest
• of Mexico.

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Francisco Pizarro

• Francisco Pizarro and 200 men conquer the Inca of
  Peru.

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Pedro Álvares Cabral

• 1500
• Portuguese
• Reaches Brazil.

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
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Pedro de Peralta

• The viceroy of Mexico appointed him to the post
  of governor of New Mexico
• From April to October of that year, Peralta
  organized an expedition to that province.

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Bartolomé de Las Casas

• 16th Century Spanish
• Priest

• famous for his
• advocacy of the rights
• of Indigenous peoples
• of the Americas

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HernandoDeSoto

• Spanish navigator and
• conquistador
• Participated in the
• conquest of Panama
• Took an active role
• with Pizarro in Spanish
• conquest of Peru

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Giovani Caboto (John Cabot)

• Italian navigator and explorer
• Commonly credited as the
• first early modern European
• to discover the North American
• mainland, in 1497

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Jacques Cartier

• French navigator
• who first explored
• and described the
• Gulf of St-Lawrence
• and the shores of the
• Saint Lawrence River,
• which he named
• Canada

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Jacques Marquette Louis Jolliet

• Father Marquette
• Louis Jolliet were the
• first Europeans
• to see and map the
• northern portion of the
• Mississippi River

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Robert LaSalle

• French explorer
• Explored Great
• Lakes region
• Mississippi River,
• the Gulf of Mex.,
• claimed the entire
• Mississippi basin for
• France

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Ponce de Leon

• Spanish conquistador
• First Governor of Puerto Rico
• by appt. of Spanish crown
• First European known to have
• visited what is now known as
• the continental U.S.
• first known European to set
• foot in what is now Florida,
• discovering it in 1513.