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history exploreres
Question | Answer |
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Leif Erikson | son of Erik the red, adventurer |
prince Henry the navigator | he founded a school for navigation, financed research for mapmaker and shipbuilders, and he financed the exploration of Africa |
Bartlomomeu Dias | lead exploration to southern Africa |
Vasco de Gama | He went around the cape of good hope to India and back. |
Christopher Columbus | sailor from Italy who wanted to find a new route to India by going west around the globe, found the new world instead but thought it was India |
Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator who went to southern South America and then continued to India |
Amerigo Vespucci | went to South America and realized wasn't in India, a German map maker named America in honer of him. |
Vasco Núñez Balboa | found the Pacific ocean |