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explorers names

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show Leif and around twenty other men were on a voyage back to Greenland from Norway when they got caught in a storm and accidentally ended up near what is now Canada.When he arrived in North America he named it Vineland because it had so many grape vines.  
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show Portuguese prince responsible for advances that made exploration possible. Started a school for navigation and financed mapmaking.  
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show Explored the west coast of Africa looking for a new route to Asia. A storm blew his ships around the tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope.  
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Vasco de Gama   show
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show An Italian explorer, he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean. He was also credited as the first man to circle the globe.  
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Ferdinand Magellan   show
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Bartolome de las Casas   show
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