American Explorers & Pioneers - Exploration Of North America And Christopher Columbus

The video covers the history of exploration from Eric the Red and Leif Erickson's journeys to Greenland and Nova Scotia, to Christopher Columbus's voyages to the Caribbean and Central America. It details the expeditions of explorers like Juan Ponce de Leon, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Giovanni de Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. The narrative continues with Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation, Samuel de Champlain's mapping of North America, Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, and the explorations of the Mississippi River by Louis Jolliet, Jacques Marquette, and Rene Robert Cavalier sieur de La Salle.

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