4778463482 | Don Juan de Onate | 1550-1630 Established New Mexico Mistreated Indians & Abused power -tried to get allegiance, conversions | 0 | |
4778463484 | Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) | 1450-1499 Italian born English Explorer Explored coastline of Canada//newfound land | 1 | |
4778463485 | Marco Polo | 1254-1324 Venice Italy Traveled Silk Road to China | 2 | |
4778463486 | Montezuma | 1466-1520 The ninth ruler of Tenochtitlan reigning from 1502-1520 Killed durning Spanish conquest to Mexico | 3 | |
4778463490 | Hermando de Soto | 1500-1542, Spanish Explorer princess story settled florida tried to make them into guides and slaves :/ | 4 | |
4778463491 | Ferdinand Magellan | 1519 Named the Pacific Ocean Led the expedition to circumnavigate the globe (died on the voyage) | 5 | |
4778463493 | Christopher Columbus | .... | 6 | |
4778463494 | Ponce de Leon | 1460-1521 Spanish 1st European Spanish to go to Florida(island) fountain of youth ???? Established the oldest European settlement in Puerto Rico( Caparra) | 7 | |
4778463496 | Vasco Nunez Balboa | 1475-1519 Spanish 1st European to go to Pacific Ocean(1519) panama isthmus | 8 | |
4778463497 | Fransico Coronado | 1460-1521 Spanish Conquistador battled for food w the zunis mostly.... teya indians lived on countryside NO GOLD | 9 | |
4778463499 | Hernan Cortes | 1485-1566 Spanish Conquered Aztec Empire in Mexico w/less than 1000 soldiers--> renamed teno mexico city built new spain (1st spanish empire in americas) thought he was long last god | 10 | |
4778463500 | Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo | Explored California Coast(1542) wanted to reach china.... had a lot of fortune | 11 | |
4778463502 | Fransico Pizarro | Conquered & destroyed Incan capital and athullupapapa empire supplied gold and spain's ambitions Founded Lima,Peru | 12 | |
4778463504 | Jacques Cartier | ... | 13 | |
4778463506 | Verrazzano | 1524 Explored east Coast of US from Maine-NC with the La dauphine thought people were chinese Discovered New York Harbor | 14 | |
4778463507 | Sir Francis Drake | English Sea Captain, Privateer, Navigator Slave trader,Politician Claimed Pacific Coast for Queen Elizabeth | 15 | |
4778463508 | Sir Walter Raleigh | 1584 English Explorer,Soldier, & Writer Named Virginia Executed for treason by James I | 16 | |
4778501200 | ovando | gov of hispianola, meanie, attacked tainos, knifed and displayed....set buildings on fire | 17 | |
4778511149 | Marcos de niza | didn't want esteban's fate, saw the hawkih from afar, didn't want estebans fate | 18 | |
4778513117 | esteban | black went to texas again...got killed | 19 |
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