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He is a viking sailor that explored land west of Greenland. They established settlements there and ruins are still there in Canada.
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He came from Portugal and sailed up and down the coast of Africa. He set up a school of navigation to teach other people how to sail and make maps.
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In the 1480's Portugal's King John the second put new efforts into creating Portuguese a trading empire in Asia.
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He came from Portugal and sailed to explore southern Africa. He discovered the Cape of Good Hope.
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He brought 90 sailors in 3 ships (Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria) and discovered America accidently. He came from Spain.
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In 1493 Pope Alexander bought a line of demarcation. Its a invisible line that stretches from the North Pole all the way to the South Pole.
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He left Portugal for Africa with four ships. They took a bigger route around Africa to try to find a safer way. This helped him find a way all the way to India.
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England sent him to look for a northern route to Asia but he landed in newfoundland.
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He left Portgual with 13 ships after da Gama came back. Instead of heading a little west before going south he went too far west and got to Brazil. Then he went on to India and brought back a lot of goods.
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Led a voyage funded by Spain. He explored the coast of South America and realized it was a separate continent from Asia. It was called America in his honor.
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In 1513 Juan made a landing on present day Florida looking for gold and the fountain of youth but did not succeed.
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In 1519 found him self on present-day mexico, in two years he defeated the Aztec empire that had ruled the region.
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Left Portugal and sailed to the southernmost tip of south america. He sailed through really stormy waters of a strait into a calm ocean. Since it was calm he named it the Pacific Ocean.
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In 1524, France hired him to look for routes different than Cabot's. He explored the coast of North America
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In 1535 Jacques Cartier was sailing in a river looking for the pacific but instead he discovered a mountain peak and named it mount-royal.
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In 1540 Francisco was searching for the seven cities, his exploration took him through Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, and Kansas.
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In 1541, Hernando was leading an expedition to Florida to trying to find gold but failed and gave up.
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In 1609 Henry Hudson was hired to look for a passage. He found a passage to India but turned around
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In the 1670's Louis Joliet was traveling the Mississippi river by canoe looking for metals when he found out it led to the pacific ocean.
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In the 1670's Jacques Marquette was traveling the Mississippi river by canoe looking for metals when he found out it led to the pacific ocean so he turned around.
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In 1862 Robert Caveliar De La Salle traveled the Mississippi river to the gulf of mexico to clam land for France