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| italian-born explorer who thought he has arrived off the coast of Asia rather than an unknown continents |
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| A Spanish conquistador who overcame Aztec resistance to gain an empire larger than Spain |
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| Born in England, his efforts to help organize the Jamestown colonists clearly helped save them from starvation in the winter of 1608-1609 |
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| the leader of the great Puritan migration to Massachusettes Bay in 1630, and the dominant influence in this early colony |
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| the strong-minded religious dissenter whose challenge to Massachusettes Bay authorities from 1636 to 1638 shook the infant colony uyo its foundations and led to her banishment |
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