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| 7283843338 | Christopher Columbus | -oct 12, 1492: landed on small Caribbean island greated by taino people -believed he reached asia and named natives Indians -took some tainos captive to teach him Spanish and use as translaters -built fort hispanola leaving crew members there -on second voyage back in 1494, left crew members were killed causing him to kill tainos -governor of hispanola in 1498 | 0 | |
| 7283849767 | Hernan Cortes | -1519 sailed from cuba to mexico w/ 600 soldiers -aztecs possibly thought cortes was the god lost Quetzalcoatl -montezuma welcomed cortes and exchanged gifts -took Montezuma as prisoner | 1 | |
| 7283852557 | Francisco Pizarro | -defeated inca empire 1532 w/ army of 168 men | 2 | |
| 7283855297 | Bartolome de Las Casas | -1484-1566 -in conquest of cuba 1512 -gained encomienda as reward -1514 gave up land and slaves to become a priest -doced cruelty against Indians by Spanish conquerors -created a record of the life of first people of Americas | 3 | |
| 7283857762 | Ponce de Leon | -gov of Puerto rico -1513 led expedition to florida -seeking fountain of youth and wealth and land -retuerned to florida in 1521 w/ 200 men -natives killed him with a poisoned arrow | 4 | |
| 7283863088 | Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | -survived Narvaez expedition to florida 1528 -ended up in texas with nice natives -walked to mexico city for 8 years -him and his four survivors earned reputation as healers and traders -reached mexico city in 1536 | 5 | |
| 7283866537 | Francisco Coronado | -1540 led large exped across us-mex border into Arizona and later new mex, tx, ok, Kansas -in search of 7 cities of gold/Cibola -returned to mex city in 1542 with no gold | 6 | |
| 7283871248 | Hernando de Soto | -1539 given royal charter to settle florida -1540 expedition moved up into Georgia and Carolinas -captured a princess and demanded she lead them over Appalachian mountains who later escapes them -1541 crossed Mississippi river into Arkansas -died of fever on june 20, 1542and sunk in Mississippi river | 7 | |
| 7283875170 | Juan Cabrillo | -1542 investigates pacific coast of new spain -called cali a good country where you can make a settlement -discovered Monterey bay, future capital of Spanish and Mexican cali -planned to sail to china but didn't -shot in back by arrow trying to save his men and dies later from the injuries | 8 | |
| 7283883314 | Giovanni Verrazano | -explore atlantic(eastern) coast and find sea route to asia/china -florida to newfoundland -entire continent divided atlantic from pacific -first to really map the modern eastern seaboard | 9 | |
| 7283888236 | Jacques Cartier | -1543 sent to find northern passage -explored st lawrence river -traded furs with americans and Indians -second voyage back in 1535-1536 -stayed too long becoming trapped in ice -lost 25% of men in winter third voyage back again in 1541 | 10 | |
| 7283894033 | Sir Francis Drake | -licensed for piracy by queen Elizabeth -main job was to harass Spanish treasure fleets -1577-1580 circumnavigated the world -1585 attacked and burned st Augustine died in 1596 | 11 | |
| 7283896758 | Walter Raleigh | -1548 given permission to fund and authorize settlement of land in north America -interested in establishing base for privateers -1584 reconnaissance trip for potential sites -discovered Roanoke island and met by friendly Algonquian natives, two of which returned to England -1585 100 men sent back to start colony -one ship ran aground and most of the food was lost causing a war then Roanoke chief was killed -after coming back to check on colony, he ended up bringing them back | 12 |
