Vocabulary terms, events, and people on the topic of exploration in US History.
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| 6372571285 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. |  | 0 |
| 6372571286 | Christopher Columbus | An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish Government to find a passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New World," even though at his death he believed he had made it to India. He made four voyages to the "New World." The first sighting of land was on October 12, 1492, and three other journeys until the time of his death in 1503. |  | 1 |
| 6372571287 | Henry de Soto | First person to sail into the Miss. River in 1542 |  | 2 |
| 6372571288 | Ponce de Leon | Discovered and claimed Florida (Land of the Flowers) for Spain while looking for the Fountain of Youth |  | 3 |
| 6372571289 | Samuel Champlain | (1608) French explorer who founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America | 4 | |
| 6372571290 | Francis Drake | English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588. |  | 5 |
| 6372571291 | Hernando Cortez | (1519) A brash and determined Spanish adventurer, Hernando Cortez crossed the Hispaniola to mainland Mexico with six hundred men, seventeen horses and ten canons. Within three years, Cortez had taken captive the Aztec emperor Montezuma, conquered the rich Aztec empire and found Mexico City as the capital of New Spain. | 6 | |
| 6372571292 | Francisco Pizarro | (1533) A conquistador like Cortes, who conquered the Incas in Peru and help to begin more advances in South America. Besides miners who worked in the silver mines, farmers, priests, friars and missionaries went to South America after it was conquered. | 7 | |
| 6372571293 | Francisco Balboa | (1513) This Spanish explorer was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Isthmus of Panama and he called hit the South sea |  | 8 |
| 6372571294 | Ferdinand Magellan | (1480?-1521) Portuguese-born navigator. Hired by Spain to sail to the Indies in 1519. Magellan was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe. |  | 9 |
