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explorers
The explorers...?
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10th Grade
09/11/2008

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Diaz
Definition
PORTUGAL

Found CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
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daGamma
Definition
PORTUGAL

First to sail from Europe to India
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Magellan
Definition
PORTUGAL-SERVED SPAIN

First to sail around the world but he died in phillippenes
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Cabral
Definition
PORTUGAL

First to see Brazil
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Columbus
Definition
PORTUGAL-SERVED SPAIN

1492 Discovered the NEW WORLD
thoguht it was asia
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Vespucci
Definition
ITALIAN

First to demonstrate that "The NEw World" wasn't asia but a new land
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Albuquerque
Definition
PORTUGAL

established Portuguese Colonial empire in Indian Ocean
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Balboa
Definition
SPAIN

crossed the Isthmus of Panama
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Cortez
Definition
SPAIN

led expidition which caused fall of AZTECS
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Coronado
Definition
SPAIN

traveled and explored southwestern U>S> & MEXICO
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Pizzarro
Definition
SPAIN

Conquered INCANS
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Xavier
Definition
FRANCE

earliest written accounts of america
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Dutch east india co
Definition
NETHERLANDS

first company to issue stock
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Cabot
Definition
ITALIAN

Nova Scotia, Newfoundland
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Drake
Definition
ENGLISH

second expedition around the world
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Frobisher
Definition
ENGLISH

looted french ships, found fools gold too, tried to find northeast passage
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Verranzano
Definition
FRANCE

discovered New York Harbor
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Cartier
Definition
FRANCE

Montral, St. Lawrence River
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Champlain
Definition
FRANCE

Claimed Quebec, became base of France's Colonial Empire
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La Salle
Definition
FRANCE

Explored Great Lakes
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