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New World Explorers
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Prince Henry the
Navigator
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Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal
Henry started to explore the coast of Africa, and
funded 50 explorations
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He wanted discover the source of West African
Gold trade and find Spices in Asia.
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He gathered Europe’s best navigators and started
a navigation school and mapmaking
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Helped to start European exploration pursuits and
spread his religion
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He started the African slave Trade as he created
sugarcane plantations
Bartolomeu Dias
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A nobleman of the Portuguese royal household
was a Portuguese explorer
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The first European to sail around Cape Good Hope
and found a route to the Indian Ocean
Vasco da Gama
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The first European to reach India through sea
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The commander of the first ships to sail directly
from Europe to India and set up new trade routes
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He paved the way for the Portuguese to establish
a long lasting colonial empire in Asia
New route for Spice Trade
Christopher Columbus
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Christopher Columbus was hired by Spanish
monarchy
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Christopher Columbus's first voyage with the Nina,
Pinta and the Santa Maria began on August 3, 1492.
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Christopher Columbus and his crew actually
discovered the island of San Salvador discovered
the Carribeans
Columbus New World
route
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Columbus "discovered" (for the Europeans) many
of the Caribbean Islands, South America and
Central America.
Ferdinand Magellan
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He was a Portuguese explorer
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He served King Charles I of Spain in search of a
westward route to the "Spice Islands“
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Magellan's expedition of 1519–1522 became the
first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into
the Pacific Ocean ("peaceful sea")
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The Strait of Magellan named after him
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His expedition completed the first
circumnavigation of the Earth (around world)
Hernando Cortez
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A Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition
that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
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The second cousin once removed of Francisco
Pizarro
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Aztec men greeted him with gold and silver
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Montezuma, the Aztec leader, sent more gifts in
hopes that Cortes would go away
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Cortes conquers the Aztec nation of 5 million with
less than 1000 soldiers
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Tenochtitlan capitol of Aztec Empire
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Montezuma II was the ruler
Francisco Pizarro
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He was born in Trujillo, Spain
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Reports of Peru's riches and Cortés's success in
Mexico tantalized Pizarro
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Pizarro went to New World and founded the first
Spanish settlement in Peru, San Miguel de Piura
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Inca emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro
and executed
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Pizarro was assassinated by his own countrymen
James Cook
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He was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer,
and captain in the Royal Navy
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Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior
to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean
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He achieved the 1st European contact with the
eastern coast of Australia/Hawaii
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The first recorded circumnavigation of New
Zealand
Samuel de Champlain
John Cabot
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John Cabot was a Genoese navigator and
explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North
America under the commission of Henry VII of
England
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John Cabot made a British claim to land in
Canada, mistaking it for Asia