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European Exploration

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Who was the person who started a school of navigation in Portugal? Prince Henry the navigator
Who was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope? Bartholomew Dias
Who "discovered" the Americas? Christopher Columbus
Who was the Americas named after? Amerigo Vespucci
What did Vasco Da Gama do? he was the first European to reach India by sea
What did Juan Ponce de Leon find? Florida
Who was the first person to sail around the world? Ferdinand Magellan
What did European Explorers look for? A direct route to Asia
What are two things sailors were scared of while traveling disease and scurvy, starvation, mutiny, lost at sea, and storms
What did Francisco Pizarro do when in the Americas conquered the Inca empire
Line of Demarcation a line set by the Pope in the Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the undiscovered new world between Spain and Portugal
John Cabot claimed land in North America for England
Queen Elizabeth I made England a sea power
What we're european pirates called? Sea Dogs
Fleet of ships Armada
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