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Henry Hudson
English navigator who discovered the Hudson River
Samuel de Champlain
Father of New France
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Explored the California coast for Spain in 1542
Francisco Coronado
Spanish explorer who heard stories about the Seven Cities of Gold and set out to find them
Jaques Cartier
French explorer, found the St. Lawrence River and laid claim to Canada as a French possesion (1534)
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered the Incas
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish explorer who explored what is now Texas in 1528
Giovanni da Verrazano
Italian who explored east coast of US from NC to NY for France in 1524
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Amerigo Vespucci
A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
First European to see the Pacific Ocean
Hernando De Soto
Discovered the Mississippi River
Prince Henry the Navigator
Sent others to explore for him, made very first explorer school, first person to value exploring
Barthelomeu Dias
Portuguese captain who sailed around the southern tip of Africa in 1488
Christopher Columbus
He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
John Cabot
1497 claimed Canada for England
Vasco da Gama
the first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.
Juan Ponce De Leon
Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth"
Hernando Cortes
Conquered the Aztecs
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River.
Bartolomé de las Casas
the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there.
Panifilio de Narvez
After surviving a hurricane near Cuba, his expedition landed on the west coast of Florida, near Tampa Bay, in April 1528, claiming the land for Spain.