Early Explorers 2
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- Marco Polo
- Explored China and brought back new products to Europe.
- Prince Henry
- Ran a school to teach navigation in Portugal.
- Bartholomeau Dias
- Sailed to the Southern tip of Africa
- Vasco da Gama
- Sailed around the Southern tip of Africa all the way to India.
- Christopher Columbus
- Discovered America in 1492.
- Amerigo Vespuci
- Declared that the new land was a new continent.
- Vasco de Balboa
- First European to see the Pacific Ocean.
- Ferdinand Magellan
- First to circumnavigate the earth.
- Hernando Cortez
- Conquistador who conquered the Aztecs.
- Francisco Pizarro
- Conquistador who conquered the Incas.
- Ponce de Leon
- Explored Florida looking for a Fountain of Youth.
- Hernando de Soto
- Explored Florida looking for the seven cities of gold.
- Francisco Coronado
- Explored the Southwest
- Junipero Serro
- A missionary priest who establised missions in California.