Explorers -3rd Grade
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- Explorers
- Country (Sponsor)
- Christopher Newport
- England
- Reasons for Exploring
- Successes/Achievement
- Jacques Cartier
- France
- Christopher Columbus
- Spain
- To discover riches and land to conquer.
- First European to land in Florida (near St. Augustine); gave Spain claim to Florida.
- Juan Ponce de Leon
- Spain
- To find a western sea route to Asia.
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*First European to discover a sea route to America:
*discovered "New World"
*Landed in San Salvador -
*To discover riches
*To find western sea route to Asia;
*To colonize Virginia - Arrived at present day Jamestown; made four additional voyages bringing more people to Jamestown; was one of the first men to reach the Fall Line of the James River.
- To colonize the New World.
- Explored the St. Lawerence River Valley (near Quebec, Canada) and gave France a North American claim.