Early World Explorers

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  1. 4. Italian / Spanish Discovery of the New World
  2. 9. Spanish First European explorer to set foot in Florida and established St. Augustine.
  3. 10. French Led three expeditions of exploration to Canada
  4. 14. Portuguese Discovery of an ocean route from Portugal to the East.
  5. 16. Spanish First European explorer to navigate the coast of present day California in the United States.
  6. 19. Spanish Famous for establishing the colony of New Mexico for Spain
  7. 22. English The discovery of the Hudson River and Hudson Bay.
  8. 24. Spanish Famous explorer and colonizer of South Carolina and discoverer of Chesapeake Bay
  9. 25. Italian / French Famous explorer from Italy who explored the NE coast of North America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine.
  10. 26. Italian / English Son of the famous explorer John Cabot. Searching for the Northwest passage across North America, attempting to circumnavigate the world and making expeditions to Russia.
  11. 28. North African Exploring Texas and Southwest America and heralded as having been “the first black man in North America.”
  12. 29. Spanish Famous Explorer who conquered the Incas of Peru
  13. 30. Spanish First European to explore the Southwest of North America in Arizona and New Mexico.
  14. 31. French Discovering the Mississippi River with famous Canadian explorer Louis Joliet
  15. 32. English Voyages to Labrador and Greenland
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  1. 1. Spanish First famous European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore
  2. 2. Portuguese The first European explorer to lead a 1487 voyage around the Cape of Good Hope on the Southern most tip of South Africa.
  3. 3. Portuguese The first European explorer to see Brazil in 1500
  4. 5. English This famous explorer established St Johns, Newfoundland.
  5. 6. English Captain who explored Southern Pacific Ocean, Hawaii, Australia, & New Zealand
  6. 7. Italian / English Exploring the coastline of Canada the subsequent colonization of Canada. He was the second famous explorer to find North America (after Christopher Columbus).
  7. 8. Italian / Spanish America was named after this famous explorer
  8. 11. English Voyages to South America.
  9. 12. Italian / Spanish Discovering the Pueblo tribe called the Zuni indians. Duped into believing the myth of the "Seven Golden Cities of Cibola"
  10. 13. Canadian Famous for exploring the Great Lakes area and discovering the Mississippi River
  11. 15. Spanish Spanish conqueror of Mexico and the Aztec Empire.
  12. 17. First Englishman to Circumnavigate the World
  13. 18. French Famous explorer and founder of Quebec City. Known as 'The Father of Canada'
  14. 20. Spanish First European to explore Florida and South East America
  15. 21. English The Discovery of Guiana and establishing the Virginia colony of Roanoke Island, the NC capital is named in his honor.
  16. 23. English Voyages to Virginia and Roanoke Island and the Azores.
  17. 27. Italian Exploration of China and Asia. 
FerdinandMagellan Portuguese First to circumnavigate the world.