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Exploration Flashcards

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Christopher Columbus

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Wanted to reach the West Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Strait of Magellan

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John Cabot

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Sailed to Canada

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Henry Hudson

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Northeast passage around Europe

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Hernando Cortes

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Captured and demolished Tenichtitlan

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Verrazano

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Manhattan

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Pedro Cabral

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Tried to take Da Gama’s route for greater winds

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Vitus Bering

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Bering sea and Strait

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Jacques Cartier

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Claimed Canada New France

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Vasco da Gama

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Cape of Good Hope

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