European Exploration
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- Drake
- sailed completely around the world
- Ponce de Leon
- went looking for the "Fountain of Youth" in Florida
- de la Salle
- explored the Mississippi River
- Reasons for exploration
- god, gold, glory
- Coronado
- explored the Southwest of the US while looking for the seven cities of gold
- Vespucci
- was the first to say this was a new land and not Asia
- Balboa
- was the first to see the Pacific Ocean
- Magellan
- sailed westward around South America
- Cabot
- was the first to touch North America
- Pizarro
- conquered the Incas in Peru.
- "New World"
- Europeans say ____ as a way to get rich
- Cortez
- conquered the Aztecs
- Northwest Passage
- all-water routte thorugh North America