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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
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Explorers/Discoverers
Updated
5/15/2011, 6:17:24 PM
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