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Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portuguese soldier and explorer who sailed to the Spice Islands.
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Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, explorer, and navigator who was the first European to see Brazil
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he was a protuguges sailor so he sailed to greenland in 1500 and came across he also reached the coast of north america. He died at sea and his brother died trying to find him.
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Diogo Dias was a Portuguese navigator and brother of Bartolomeu Dias who was the first European to sail to Madagascar, an island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Diogo Dias landed in Madagascar in 1500, and named it the Isle of St. Lawrence.
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Francisco Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish explorer and slave trader who explored Mexico (1517) and Nicaragua (1524).
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He started his trip in 1507 and he sailed around india ocean and africa he claimed goa for Portugal.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.After crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland.
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Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca [Cabeza de Vaca means "head of a cow"] (1490?-1557?) was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527.
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth (1519-1522). Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean
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Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, in 1534, 1535, and 1541.