Early Explorers
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- Explored the Great Lakes region and traveled down the Missippi River in 1682, discovering the mouth of the river.
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Rober Cavelier,Sieur de
La Salle
French explorer & Fur Trader - Commander of the first expedition to sail around the world. He also named the Pacific Ocean
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Ferdinand Magellan
Portugese Navigator
and Explorer - Discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal in 1500
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Pedro Alvarez Cabral,
Portutuese Navigator - The first explorer to realize that he had found a New World, America is named after him.
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Amerigo Vespucci
Italian Navigator - Discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488
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Bartolomeu Dias,
Poruguese Navigator - First White Man to reach mainland America. Became a Christian in Norway and brought a priest back to Greenland to spread the Christian Faith there.
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Leif Erikson
Viking Explorer
970C. - 1020c. - Searched for the rich Inca Empire, was appointed gov. of Peru and founded Lima, the capitol of Peru in 1535.
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Francisco Pizarro
Spanish Explorer - The first traveler to journey across the entire width of Asia. His writings influenced early map makers and inspired others to travel
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Marco Polo
Venitian Explorer
1254 - 1324 - 1570 Led expedition across Panama and found the Pacific Ocean. In 1577 He was the 2nd explorer to sail around the world and the first Englishman to explore the Pacific.
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Sir Frances Drake,
English Explorer - explored from present-day North Carolina up the Atlantic coast as far as present-day Nova Scotia in 1524
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Giovanni Da Verrazano
Italian Navigator -
explorer for France - Discovered a trade route to India around the Cape of Good hope in 1498
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Vasco De Gama
Portuguese Navigator