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EuropeanExplorers
Blue Team--European Explorers
Question | Answer |
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Bartholomew Dias | First European explorer to sail to the southern tip if Africa, 1488 |
Christopher Columbus | European explorer who believed he could reach Asia by sailing west |
Vasco da Gama | First European explorer to sail from Portugal to India, 1497 |
Amerigo Vespucci | European explorer who realized South America was a continenet |
Ferdinand Magellan | European explorer who led the first European voyage around the world |
Hernando Cortez | European explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire |
Francisco Pizarro | European explorer who discovered and destroyed the Inca Empire in Peru |
Vasco Nunez de Balboa | First European exlorer to see the Pacific Ocean |
Hernando Cortez | European exlorer who became the first Spanish ruler of Mexico |
Bartholomew Dias | European exlorer who named the southern tip of Africa the Cape of Good Hope |
Christopher Columbus | First European explorer to discover a new continent for Europe, 1492 |
Vasco da Gama | First European exlorer to find a sea route to Asia |