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1000
Leif Erickson
He was blown off by a storm and some how made it to North America. -
1488
Bartolomeu Dias
Sailed from Portugal. Then made it to the bottom of africa. -
1491
Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry the Navigator although was not a sailor or a navigator he helped a lot with the exploration along the west coast of Africa -
1492
Christopher Columbus
He had sailed the ocean blue for Spain. He was trying to get to Asia and had thought he had landed there but he actually was in America -
1497
Vasco Da Gama
Vasco Da Gama had sailed all around Africa. He also won a European boat race. -
1497
AMerigo Vespucci
He was a italian merchant and a navigator. He also participated in the last 2 voyges of the age of discovery he did this for spain and for portugal. -
1501
Vasco Nunez de Balbo
He was a Spanish explorer. And a governor. He had crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific -
1513
Francisco Pizarro
A conquistador who explored the Andes Mountains of South America -
1513
Juan Ponce de Leon
He explored modern day florida in search of the fountain of youth -
1514
Hernando de Soto
He explored florida and discovered the mississippi river. -
1519
Ferdinand Magellan
He was a Portuguese explorer. He organised the Spanish expediton. -
1519
Hernando Cortes
He was a conquistador who explored Mexico. He also conquered the Aztec. -
1527
Alavr Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. -
1540
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
He discovered the grand Canyon. And also was looking for the city of gold -
1542
Jaun Cabrillo
explorer best known for investigations of the West -
1567
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain was a French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. -
John Cabot
He sailed for the english an searched for the passage to the pacific -
Jacques Cartier
He claimed land to france sailed down to saint Lawrence -
Henry Hudsen
led a dutch experition -
rene-robert de la salle
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America.
