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Americas Flashcards

Exploration of North and South America

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982-86; Norse; Greenland

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Erik the Red (Father of Leif Erikson)

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1000; Norse; Newfoundland

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Leif Erikson (Son of Erik the Red)

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1492; Italian (Spanish); West Indies

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Christopher Columbus

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1497; Italian (English); Newfoundland or Nova Scotia

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John Cabot

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1498; Italian (English); Labrador to Hatteras

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John and Sebastian Cabot

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1499; Spanish; N South American coast, Venezuela

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Alonso de Ojeda

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1500; Spanish; South American coast, Amazon R.

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Vicente Yanez Pinzon

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1500; Portuguese; Brazil

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Pedro Alvarez Cabral

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1500-02; Portuguese; Labrador

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Gaspar Corte-Real

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1501; Spanish; Central America

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Rodrigo de Bastidas

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1513; Spanish; Panama, Pacific Ocean

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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1513; Spanish; Florida, Yucatan Peninsula (Fountain of Youth)

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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1515; Spanish; Rio de la Plata

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Juan de Solis

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1519; Spanish; Mouth of Mississippi R.

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Alonso de Pineda

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1519; Spanish; Mexico (Conquered the Aztecs)

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Hernan Cortes

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1519-20; Portuguese (Spanish); Straits of [Namesake], Tierra del Fuego (First to circumnavigate the world)

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Ferdinand Magellan

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1524; Italian (French), Atlantic coast including New York harbor

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Giovanni da Verrazano

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1528; Spanish; Texas coast and interior

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Cabeza de Vaca

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1532; Spanish; Peru (Conquered Incas)

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Francisco Pizarro

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1534; French; Canada, Gulf of St. Lawrence

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Jacques Cartier (NOT Champlain)

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1536; Spanish; Buenos Aires

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Pedro de Mendoza

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1539; Spanish; California coast

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Francisco de Ulloa

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1539-41; Spanish; Mississippi R. near Memphis

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Hernando de Soto

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1539; Italian (Spanish); SW United States

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Marcos de Niza

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1540; Spanish; SW United States in search of Cities of Gold and Cibola

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Francisco de Coronado

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1540; Spanish; Colorado R.

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Hernando Alarcon

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1540; Spanish; Colorado, Grand Canyon

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Garcia de L. Cardenas

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1541; Spanish; Amazon R.

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Francisco de Orellana

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1542; Portuguese (Spanish); W Mexico, San Diego harbor

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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

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1565; Spanish; St. Augustine FL

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Pedro Menendez de Aviles

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1576; English; [Namesake]’s Bay Canada (Searched for the NW Passage)

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Sir Martin Frobisher

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1577-80; English; California coast (Sailed on The Golden Hind)

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Sir Francis Drake

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1582; Spanish; SW U.S. (New Mexico)

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Antonio de Espejo

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1584; English; Virginia

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Amadas & Barlow (for Walter Raleigh)

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1585-87; English; Roanoke Island NC

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Sir Walter Raleigh’s men

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1595; English; Orinoco R.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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1603-09; French; Canadian interior, Lake [Namesake] (“Father of New France”)

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Samuel de Champlain

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1607; English; Atlantic coast (Jamestown)

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Capt. John Smith

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1609-10; English (Dutch); [Namesake] R., [Namesake] Bay (Canada)

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Henry Hudson (died after crew mutiny)

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1634; French; Lake Michigan, Wisconsin

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Jean Nicolet

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1673; French; Mississippi R. south to Arkansas

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Jacques Marquette Louis Jolliet

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1682; French; Mississippi R. south to Gulf of Mexico

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Robert Cavelier sieur de La Salle

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1725-41; Denmark; [last name] Sea

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Vitus Bering

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1789; Canadian; NW Canada, [Namesake] River

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Sir Alexander Mackenzie

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1804-06; American; Missouri R., Rockies, Columbia R.

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

46
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1911; US; Machu Picchu

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Hiram Bingham

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