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Explorers, Inventors and Discoverers Flashcards

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Venetian Who Explored Asia

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Marco Polo

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Norse Explorer who First Reached Greenland

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Eric the Red

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North Explorer who Northeast North American

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Leif Erickson (Eric the Red’s son)

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4
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Flemish Cartographer

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Geradus Mercator

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5
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Portugese Navigation Instructor

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Henry the Navigator

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First To Go Around the Cape of Good Hope

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Discoverer of the New World

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Christopher Columbus

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Italian map maker, coined the term “new world”

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Portugeses Explorer and First to Reach India

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Vasco Da Gama

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First to see the Pacific Ocean

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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Aztec COnquerer

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Hernando Cortez

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Incan Conqueror and Explorer of Peru

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Francisco Pizarro

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Explorer of American Southwest, Search for 7 cities of gold

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Francisco de Coronado

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14
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First to Set foot on US Mainland (Florida)

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Ponce De Leon

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15
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Italian Explorer who discovered Newfoundland

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John Cabot

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John Cabot’s Son who explored the Rio De la Plata

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Sebastian Cabot

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17
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Frenchman who founded Montreal

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Jacques Cartier

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18
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Portuguese Discoverer of Brazil

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Pedro Cabral

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19
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Portuguese Discoverer of California

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Juan Cabrillo

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20
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Frenchman Who Explored the Southern Mississippi River

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Sieur De La Salle

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Frenchman who Explored the Length of the Mississippi

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Marquette & Joliet

22
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First To Sale into NY Harbor

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Giovanni De Varrazano

23
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Spaniard Who Discovered the Mississippi

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Hernando De Soto

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The Father of New France, Founded Quebec

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Samuel De Champlain

25
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German naturalist who explored the orinoco

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Friedrich Humboldt

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Explorer of the Gambia and Niger Rivers

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Mungo Park

27
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His Ship was the first to Sail Around the World

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Ferdinand Magellan

28
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First Englishman to Sail Around the World

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Sir. Francis Drake

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Dutchman who explored the pacific

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Abel Tasman

30
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Norwegian Who First Navigated Northwest Passage

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Roald Amundsen

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ENglishman who Discovered Australia and Hawaii

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James Cook

32
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First Englishman to Reach Australia

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William Dampier

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Danish Discoverer of Alaska and Namesake Strait

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Vitus Bering

34
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Explorer of Northwest Canada

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Alexander Mackenzie

35
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Discovered the Great Salt Lake

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Jim Bridger

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Englishman who Discovered the World’s 5th Largest Island

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William Baffin

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Englishman who Discovered the Source of the Nile (DIsputed)

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John Speke

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Speke’s Colleague, Who Spoke 29 Languages

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Sir. Richard Burton

39
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First to Reach North Pole, 1909

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Robert Peary & Matthew Henson

40
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First to Reach South Pole, 1911

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Roald Amundsen

41
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Competitor of Amundsen, Died after reaching South Pole

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Robert Scott

42
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First to Fly over South Pole

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RIchard Byrd

43
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British Explorer of the Antarctic

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James Ross

44
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Scottish Medical Missionary to Africa

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David Livingstone

45
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Man Who Found Livingstone

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Henry Stanley

46
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Explored Northern Louisiana Purchase Territory

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Lewis and Clark

47
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Explored Southern Louisiana Purchase Territory

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Zebulon Pike

48
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Machu Picchu Discoverer

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Hiram Bigham

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