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- Sailed for England as Privateer, explored the Western Coast of North America and circumnavigated the globe
- Drake
- Shut down the land routes to the Far East
- Turks
- Started a navigational school even though was never an explorer
- Prince Henry
- Portugese explorer who sailed south around the tip of Africa to India
- Vasco da Gama
- Italian who sailed for England and discovered Newfoundland and Novia Scotia
- Cabot
- discovered the Grand Banks, rich fishing banks off coast Newfoundland
- Cabot
- Drew a world map naming the New World after Amerigo Vespucci
- German Mapmaker
- Spanish explorer searched for the fountain of youth but found Florida instead
- Ponce de Leon'
- Spanish Explorer who was ruthless and cruel. He conquered the Aztecs of Mexico
- Cortes
- 1st European explorer to see Pacific Ocean
- Balboa