Explorers
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- Diaz
- Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, but was forced to turn around afterwards.
- Cartier
- French explorer who claimed the St. Lawrence River and Canada for France.
- Columbus
- First to discover the "New World" (didn't realize it was new though)
- Champlain
- Established Quebec for France.
- Magellan
- Spanish explorer who colonized the Philippines.
- Balboa
- Spanish explorer who explored Central America and paved the way for Cortes and Pizarro.
- Drake
- British pirate who stole Spanish bullion.
- Pizarro
- Spanish explorer who conqured the Incan Empire.
- Cabral
- Portuguese explorer who was blown by a storm into Brazil and colonized it for Portugual.
- Vespucci
- Spanish explorer who used scientific reasoning to deduce that Columbus had found a new world, not another route to Asia.
- De Leon
- Spanish explorer who established Florida as a Spanish possesion, while he was searching for the fountain of youth.
- Cortes
- Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec empire.
- Cabot
- British explorer who looked for North-west passage, and claimed parts of North America for Britain.
- Hudson
- British explorer who established the Hudson Bay Company and British Canada.
- Da Gama
- Portuguese explorer who sailed around Africa into Inda forming a new trade route to Asia.