Marco Polo - (1254-1324) Italian explorer and author. He made numerous trips to China and returned to Europe to write of his journeys. He is responsible for much of the knowledge exchanged between Europe and China during this time period. , Leif Ericson - Viking who was the first European to visit America., Eric the Red - Norwegian adventurer who founded a colony on Greenland. He is the father of Leif Ericson , Hernan Cortes - 1485-1547, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico., Prince Henry - (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire, Giovanni da Verrazano - Italian sea captain in the service of France who searched for a Northwest Passage in 1524. He explored east coast of the US from North Carolina to New York for France in 1524, Henry Hudson - An English explorer who explored for the Dutch. He claimed the Hudson River around present day New York and called it New Netherland. He also had the Hudson Bay named for him., Francisco de Coronado - Leader of the Spanish expedition into northern frontier of New Spain; entered what is now United States in search of 7 mythical cities of gold. He was the first to explore the American Southwest, in what is today, Arizona and New Mexico. He explored the Colorado River and discovered the Grand Canyon. r , Hernando de Soto - Spanish Conquistador; explored in 1540's from Florida west to Mississippi with six hundred men in search of gold; discovered the Mississippi, a vital North American river, Vasco da Gama - Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail India, opening an important commercial sea route. , Samuel de Champlain - French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635), Francisco Pizzaro - Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)., Ferdinand Magellan - Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was first to sail around the world., Amerigo Vespucci - A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him., Captain James Cook - An English explorer who found Hawaii and a part of Australia., Christopher Columbus - He mistakenly discovered the America in 1942 while searching for a faster route to India., Sir Walter Raleigh - An English adventurer and writer, who was prominent at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, and became an explorer of the Americas. In 1585, Raleigh sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island in present day North Carolina. It failed and is known as "The Lost Colony.", Juan Ponce de Leon - Spanish explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth.", Bartolomeu Dias - Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean., Jacques Cartier - French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557),

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