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Explorers
Marco Polo Venetian trader and explorer Gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorded in the book Il Milione or The Travels of Marco Polo one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road & visit the Great Khan
Bartolomeu Dias Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488 the first European known to do so since ancient times.
Prince Henry
He became aware of profit possibilities in the Saharan trade routes and with expanding Portuguese trade
Vasco De Gama The first person to sail directly from Europe to India
Alphonso de Albuquerque
Portuguese naval general Responsible for building the Portuguese Castle on island of Hormuz He became the second viceroy of the State of India, a position he would hold until his death.
Christopher Columbus
A navigator & maritime explorer credited as the discoverer of the Americas. History places great significance on his first voyage of 1492, he did not actually reach the mainland until his third voyage in 1498. the period before 1492 is known as Pre-Columbian
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian Merchant, explorer Cartographer; explorered east of South America America named after him
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Spanish Explorer Marches through
Panama and becomes the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
Ferdinand Magellan
First to circumnavigate the globe.
Hernando Cortez conquistador who became famous for leading the military expedition that initiatedthe Spanish Conquestof Mexico.
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro and 200 men conquer the Inca of Peru.
Pedro Álvares Cabral 1500 Portuguese Reaches Brazil.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Pedro de Peralta
The viceroy of Mexico appointed him to the post of governor of New Mexico
From April to October of that year, Peralta organized an expedition to that province.
Bartolomé de Las Casas•16th Century Spanish Priest•famous for his advocacy of the rights of Indigenous peoplesof the Americas
HernandoDeSoto
Spanish navigator and conquistador Participated in the conquest of Panama Took an active role with Pizarro in Spanish conquest of Peru
Giovani Caboto (John Cabot)•Italian navigator and explorer•Commonly credited as the first early modern European to discover the North American mainland, in 1497
Jacques Cartier
French navigator who first explored and described the Gulf of St-Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named Canada
Jacques Marquette & Louis Jolliet• Father Marquette & Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River
Robert LaSalle French explorer Explored Great Lakes region; Mississippi River, & the Gulf of Mex., & claimed the entire Mississippi basin for France
Ponce de Leon Spanish conquistador First Governor of Puerto Rico by appt. of Spanish crown First European known to have visited what is now known as the continental U.S. first known European to set foot in what is now Florida, discovering it in 1513.