Amerigo Vespucci

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Amerigo Vespucci

• Born 1454 Died 1512
• Native homeland Italy
• Sailed for Spain and Portugal
• Time period 1492 - 1499
• Purpose of expedition to help Spanish ships get
  what they needed for their journeys
• Route Made 2 voyages to Brazil
• Discoveries America and Native Americans
• Other interesting facts died of Malaria, helped
  Columbus
• America was named after him.

By McKenna Eichler
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Samuel de Champlain

• Born 1567 Brouage, France - Died Dec. 1635
• Route New England and Canadian coast from Cape
  Sable to Cape Cod
• Time Period of voyage early 1600s
• Ships name Saint Julien
• Landed at Vera Cruz, proceeded inland to Mexico
  City, went through Panama, returned Spain in
  March, 1601
• Funded by Henry IV to do further exploration
• Purpose to explore the St. Lawrence River and
  its surroundings
• Discoveries Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, and Lake
  Chaplain
• He made the first thorough map of New England and
  the Canadian Coast, shows Port Royal, Frenchmans
  Bay the St.JohnSt. CroixPenobscotKennebec
  Rivers offshore islands- Mount Desert, which
  Champlain named
• Champlain spread Christianity

By Rachel Morris
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Bartolomeu Dias

• Born in Portugal
• Sailed for Portugal
• Found Brazil
• Born 1450,died1500
• Named Angora dos lieu's and Cabo das Voltas.
• John II sent him to explore the west coast of
  Africa.
• Sunk in a squall
• Sailed in 1486
• Sailed around Africa

Julia Burmeister
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Christopher Columbus

• Born 1451
• Died 1506
• Native homeland Italy
• He sailed for Spain
• Time period1492-1493
• Purpose to find a new route to the Indies, and
  once he found the Indies, their riches
• Route southwest from Spain, across the Atlantic
  Ocean, west to Cuba, and then returned to Spain
• Discoveries Cuba and Indians, he thought he
  found the Indies
• Other interesting information he first went to
  sea when he was fourteen, but the ship was
  shipwrecked on the coast of Portugal, he asked
  many kings and queens to sail until Queen
  Isabella of Spain agreed to pay for his voyage,
  after weeks at sea the crew became worried
  because according to the maps of their time,
  they should have arrived because they believed
  the world was much smaller than it really is and
  that the ocean was much smaller , Columbus was
  actually present when Dias gave his mission
  report, but still wanted to sail west.

Emily Zeme
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Ferdinand Magellan

• Born in 1480 in Portugal.
• Died in 1521 during his voyage.
• Sailed for Portugal's enemy, Spain.
• Sailed in the early 1500s.
• Looked for a route from Spain to India without
  going through Portugal's territory.
• Discovered the Straits of Magellan, and that
  ships could sail around the world.
• Went from Spain to the Canary Islands. Then to
  the Straits of Magellan, next to the Spice
  Islands, and finally back to Spain.

Matthew H. Romer
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Francisco Pizarro

• Born in 1475
• He sailed for Spain
• He sailed in 1503
• His purpose was to get to Hispanola
• He founded Panama City and San Miguel
• He strangled a guy in 1533
• He was a conquistador
• He discovered the Inca
• He was killed in a fight with another Spaniard
• Died in 1533

By Katie Kroger
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Giobanni Da Verrazano

• Born in Tuscany Italy
• Sailed for France
• He was born 1485 and died in 1528
• explored the east coast United States in 1525
  best known as the discoverer of New York Harbor.
• possibly the first European to enter New York
  Bay.
• In 1526, or later, sailing from France, he
  explored the West Indies, where he was killed by
  the natives.
• As a young man he lived in Dieppe, France, and
  entered the French maritime service. Verrazzano
  made two voyages to the Levant (present-day
  Turkey, Syria and Lebanon).
• Verrazzano set sail in search of a northwest
  passage to Asia with two ships provided by
  Francis I of France.

By Drew Ball
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Henry Hudson

• Born1570(?)
• Died1611(?)
• Homeland England.
• Route Across the Atlantic Ocean to the Northeast
  coast of America.
• Accomplishments Went on the Hudson River and
  back out heading Northeast.
• Time Period Late 1500 hundreds and early 1600
  hundreds.
• Country he sailed for Netherlands.
• Discoveries Discovered the Hudson River.
• Purpose Sailing for Northwest Passage.
• Other interesting facts They do not know when he
  was born or died.

Connor Gallegos
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Hernando Cortes

• Born 1487 Died 1547
• Born in Medellin, Spain
• Sailed for Spain
• Explored in the 14th century
• Purpose was to claim new lands
• Started at Cuba, and went a number of ways like
  NW, SW, SE, and South he found New Spain
• Discovered new lands
• Discovered Mexico
• Was also called Hernan and Fernando

Kristianna Lea
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Jacques Cartier

• Born St. Malo, France.
• Sailed for France.
• Time period1491-1557.
• Purpose To find gold and find a passageway to
  China.
• Route Along the west shore of Newfoundland to
  Cape Anguille. And ended at The St. Lawrence
  River.
• Discoveries The St. Lawrence River.
• Other Interesting Facts he failed in his primary
  object, the discovery of the Northwest Passage.

Made by Gus
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John Cabot

• Born in Italy
• Sailed for England
• Time period 1476
• On March 5, 1496 King Henry gave John permission
  to sail North.
• Johns route was from England to Newfoundland.
• First to explore the Mainland of North America
  and the first to search for the Northwest
  Passage.
• His ship was named The Matthew
• He found Newfoundland.
• Alexis

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Juan Ponce de Leon

• Born Palencia , Spain - 1460.
• Died in 1521.
• Sailed for Spain.
• Voyage started in 1513.
• Tried to find the Fountain of Youth
• Sailed from Spain across the Atlantic ocean to
  the coast of Florida.
• Discovered Florida.
• Got shot with an arrow trying to land on Florida
  .
• Served in many military campaigns

Talbot Jacobs
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Leif Eriksson

• Born in Iceland - 960 A .D
• Sailed for Norway
• Time Period 984
• His purpose was to make people Christian
• His route started at Iceland went around the tip
  of Greenland and ended up in what is Canada today
• Found Vineland and Wineland
• When he was on his ship sailing, he saved
  drowning people. They rewarded him with treasure
  and called him Leif the Lucky.
• Died unknown

Madison Clark
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Alvez Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
By Anna Cardall

• Born in Spain in 1490
• Sailed for Spain on royal orders
• Left in 1527 and came back in 1532
• Discovered parts of Florida and Texas
• Route went across the Atlantic Ocean and followed
  the coast of Florida, had a shipwreck and
  followed the coast of Texas, walked across to the
  west coast of Mexico, returned to Spain
• Purpose To get more land for Spain
• Made a book about his life and got captured by
  the natives of Texas
• Died in 1557

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Pedro Alvares Cabral

• Born c. 1467 Belmonte, Portugal
• Died c. 1520
• Native homeland Portugal, Europe
• Country sailed for Portugal
• Purpose To establish trade relations with India,
  also to introduce Christianity wherever he went
• Time period March 9,1500-June 23,1501
• Accomplishment Found Brazil, Claimed it for
  Portugal, discovered Madagascar

Connor Hum
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Vasco de Gama
Zachary J. Obstfeld

• born December 24,1524 died1469
• Native homeland Portugal
• Country he sailed for Spain
• Time period1497-1499 (main expedition)
• Purpose taking over for his father (Estevaode de
  Gama) in his expedition (to find a trade route to
  India)
• Discoveries first to find India
• Other Interesting Facts became naval officer in
  1492.had a crew of 170 people.
• Route south west to Cape Verde Island, south,
  south east around Cape of Good Hope, up along the
  coast of Africa to the equator, and north east to
  Calicut, India

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Vasco Nunez De Balboa

• Born1475 at Jerez De Los CabaIIeros
• Died1519
• Route Pacific Ocean
• Accomplishment First European to see the Pacific
  Ocean from the eastern shore
• Time period Early 1500s
• Native homeland Spain, Europe
• Sailed for Spain, Europe
• Purpose Sailed for trade landed on island of
  Hipaniola
• Other intresting info Balboa has a coin named
  after him in Panama. Vasco had a partner named
  Rodrigo De Bastidas.

By Ryan H.
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Vasquez de Coronado

• Born 1510 in Salamanca, Spain
• Died 1555 in Mexico City
• Sailed to enrich the Spanish Empire
• Came to America when he was 25
• Tried to find gold in the Zuni pueblos
• Was mayor of New Galicia
• Retired from mayor in 1544
• Sailed 300 Spanish soldiers, over 1,000 Tlaxcalan
  Indians, and big herds of live stock
• Sailed to Mexico and then traveled to what is
  now Kansas
• Did not find gold

Jackson Kalmbach
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Hernando De Soto

• Born 1500 Died 1541
• Native homeland Extremadura,Spain
• Sailed for Spain to North America
• Time period1539-1542
• Route from Cape Coral, Florida he went north to
  Georgia, to South Carolina, to Tennessee, to
  Alabama, and to Arkansas
• Purpose was To find gold and silver he heard
  about from Cabeza De Vaca
• Purpose to start a settlement
• Discovered The Mississippi River
• Other facts He was appointed the governor of
  Cuba
• He wanted to go to Mississippi, but died of a
  fever in Arkansas.

By Elizabeth Elmgren