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Explorers Goals&Fame

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Marco Polo ITALY: Spread Christianity to the ruling class of China, establish trade relations, look for riches. After living in China for 17 years wrote a book that started the age of exploration
Bartholomeu Dias PORTUGAL: Made it to the Cape of good hope (tip of Africa)
Christopher Columbus SPAIN: Find a sea route to asia. Found the Americas instead
Vasco Da Gama PORTUGAL: Successfully arrived to India from the cape of good hope
Amerigo Vespucci SPAIN & PORTUGAL: Determine if Columbus' new lands were India or a new place. Lands were named after him
John Cabot ENGLAND: Led first documented European expedition to North America
Vasco Nunez de Balboa SPAIN: First European to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World
Juan Ponce de Leon SPAIN:Search for the mythical fountain of Youth. First Euro to officially reach Florida (named it). Starts first permanent settlement (saint augustine)
Ferdinand Magellan SPAIN: Find a new route to the Spice Islands (Eastern Indonesia). His crew was the first to sail around the world
Hernan Cortes SPAIN: Led the conquest of the AZTEC Empire
Francisco Pizarro SPAIN: Led the conquest for the INCA Empire,
Henry Hudson ENGLAND & DUTCH: Discovery of major North American waterways (hudson bay). Made a settlement called new amsterdam ( NYC)
Samuel de Champlain FRANCE: establish French settlements in quebec aka new france, Mapped large areas of North America, St. Lawrence River, Atlantic coast, Great Lakes
Francisco Coronado SPAIN: Tried to find the 7 cities of gold (fail). Lead the first large scale european exploration in the American southwest
Hernando de Soto SPAIN: Spanish conquistador participated in conquest of Peru, found the Mississippi river
Jacques Cartier FRANCE: Named Canada charted the saint Lawrence river
Sir Francis Drake ENGLAND: Get revenge on the Spanish. First Englishman circumnavigate the world , land claim for England ( oregon territory.)
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