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Prince Henery was a prince of Portigal. He had a navigation school where he taught Europeans and they made maps, boats, and compasses. This located in Portugal
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Was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.
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A nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
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Christorper Columbus is a spanish sailor. He sailed to America, Italy, and Spain. He was the first European to find America
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Extensive European colonization began in 1492, when a Spanish expedition headed by Genoese Christopher Columbus sailed west to find a new trade route to the Far East but inadvertently found the Americas.
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In 1493, the Pope drew a line on the globe cutting the New World in half. This line was known as the Line of Demarcation. Any territory discovered on the east side of the line was to be controlled by Portugal, while any lands found on the west side of the line were to be ruled over by Spain.
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Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
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Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire.
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He was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
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An Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially told from Columbus's voyages.
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Balboa crossed Panama for the first time. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
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A new governor was reportedly jealous of Balboa and ordered him to be arrest on charges of treason. After a brief trial, Balboa was beheaded on January 12, 1519, in Acla, near Darién, Panama
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
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Died in Kochi, India from the disease Malaria. First man to sail around the globe
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On May 20, 1506, the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century
