Age of Exploration 1

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A Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and Peru and discovered the Mississippi River.

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Hernando de Soto

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America was named after this Italian navigator and explorer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World.

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Spanish explorer and conquistador who helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.

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Francisco Pizarro

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The last of the Aztec emperors, who was defeated by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1520

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Montezuma II

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Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India.

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Christopher Columbus

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Spanish conquistador who explored Central America, overthrew Montezuma and his vast Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.

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Hernan Cortes

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Portuguese explorer who became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.

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Bartolomeu Dias

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French missionary and explorer that is best known as the first European to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.

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Jacques Marquette

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Portuguese explorer that led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe.

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Neither a sailor nor a navigator, but sponsored a great deal of exploration along the west coast of Africa.

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Prince Henry