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The early settlers and columbus
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8th Grade
11/26/2013

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Christopher Columbus
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He was the "first" to discover America
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Leif Ericson
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Landed on the shores of North America in AD 1000
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Marco Polo
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The first European to travel the length of Asia
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Johann Gutenberg
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Introduced the movable-type printing press in Europe in about 1440
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Sent out several ships to explore the western coast of Africa
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Martin Luther
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Protested false doctrines of the church by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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Sponsored Columbus' expedition
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Amerigo Vespucci
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The first to realize that what Columbus had discovered was a new continent
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Ponce de Leon
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Conqueror and governor of Puerto Rico, set out to find a fabled fountain of youth
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Vasco de Balboa
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Crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Ferdinand Magellan
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A Portuguese sailor working for Spain, began a three-year voyage around the world
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Hernando Cortes
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Conquered the Aztec Indians of Mexico
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Montezuma
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Had developed a remarkably advanced civilization that included a calender, pictographic writing, and impressive architecture
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Francisco Pizarro
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Had conquered the Inca Indians of Peru
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Francisco Coronado
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Marched northward from Mexico, searching in vain for the treasures of those legendary cities
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Hernando de Soto
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Explored Forida and Georgia and parts of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee
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Juan Cabrillo
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Explored the coast of California and possibly Oregon.
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Phillip II
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Under him and his father, Spain became the most powerful nation in the world
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Elizabeth I
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Under the leadership of Queen Elizabeth I, England became, in various ways, a threat to the financial well-being of the Spanish Empire
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Sir Francis Drake
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Attacked Spanish ships bound for Spain from the New World and took their cargoes of gold and silver
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Jacques Cartier
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Led an expedition that discovered the St. Lawrence River
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Samuel de Champlain
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Established the first permanent French settlement in the New World at Quebec, Canada
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Jacques Marquette and Lois Joliet
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Led an expedition which explored the central Mississippi River
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Robert Cavalier de la Salle
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Sailed down the Illinois River to the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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