Explorers/Discovers

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Neil Armstrong
- American astronaut
- first man to walk on the moon
Sebastian Cabot
- Italian explorer
- Led first expedition find NW passage across North America
Jacques Cartier
- French explorer
- claimed Canada for France
Christopher Columbus
- Italian explorer
- made Europe aware of Americas, Spanish/European colonization of Western Hemisphere
Hernan Cortez
- Spanish explorer
- claimed Mexico for Spain
- conquered Aztecs
Vasco da Gama
- Portugese explorer
- discovered oceanic route Portugal to India
Bartolomeu Dias
- Portugese explorer
- first to sail around Cape of Good Hope
Sir Francis Drake
- Engish explorer
- circumnavigated the Earth
Lief Ericson
- Viking explorer
- landed in North America 500 years before Columbus
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
- New Zealand explorer
- reached Mt. Everest summit
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
- opened the new West (US) to traders/trappers/settlers
- with Sacagawea
Ferdinand Magellan
- Portugese explorer
- sail around the Earth
Francisco Pizzaro
- Spanish explorer/warrior
- discovered Incan empire, stole gold/silver/precious riches
Marco Polo
- Italian voyager
- spent 24 years traveling Asia with father/uncle
- met Kubla Khan in Beijing
Juan Ponce de Leon
- Spanish explorer
- first to set foot in Florida
- "fountain of youth" believer
Prince Henry the Navigator
- Portugese prince
- Patron of explorers; financed sailing expeditions to Africa
Amerigo Vespucci
- America was named for him
- discovered America was not a part of Asia