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Early Explorers

Explorers of the Americas

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Eric the Red 984 – Viking, to Greenland
Leif Eric’s Son 1000 – Viking, from Greenland to Newfoundland
Christopher Columbus 1492 - Italian - Sailed for Spain - arrived in America
John Cabot 1497 - English - Venetian Captain, recorded voyage on English ship to Americas
Amerigo Vespucci 1500 - Italian - Sailed for Portugal convinced German map makers he had beaten Columbus to New World
Hernan Cortes 1518 - Spanish - sailed from Cuba to Mexico, opposed Aztec, Montezuma
Jacques Cartier 1534 - French – found Newfoundland and Gulf of St Lawrence to Montreal
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado 1535 - Spanish - New Spain, 1540 led expedition into central N. America, encountered Zuni’s. eventually made it to Grand Canyon
Giovanni Da Verazanno 1539 - Italian - Sailed for France from S. Carolina to Newfoundland
Hernando de Soto 1540 - Spanish - Southeastern Indians, first European to discover the Mississippi
Sir Francis Drake 1560's - English - Elizabeth I “sea dog” – seized Spanish treasure ships
Sir Walter Raleigh 1584 - Given Virginia by Queen Elizabeth, established Roanoke Island
John Smith 1606 - Jamestown – He brought order to the colony, trades w/Indians, Pocahantas
John Rolf 1610 - He recognized potential trade value of tobacco, married Pocahantas
Pocahontas 1614 - She translated for the Europeans, saved John Smith, and married John Rolf
Dutch West Indies Co 1600's - French – aggressive fur traders, not colonists – New Netherland
Samuel de Champlain 1608 - French - founded Quebec and fur trade
Henry Hudson 1609 - English - sailed the Hudson River claimed area for Holland – Dutch West Indies Co
Sieur de La Salle 1682 - French – traveled down Mississippi R to Gulf of Mexico. Claimed Mississippi basin "La Louisiane" in honour of Louis XIV for France
General Oglethorpe 1732 - Georgia Colony - wanted to use London debtors, restricted land to 500 acres, no rum, no slaves
Vasco de Gama 1497 - Portugese, was the first to travel an all water route to India
Francisco Pizarro 1524 - Conquistador - conquered Incas in Peru
Juan Ponce de Leon 1513 - Conquistador - Governor of Puerto Rico, searching for the Fountain of Youth explored Florida
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