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| He was the "first" to discover America |
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| Landed on the shores of North America in AD 1000 |
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| The first European to travel the length of Asia |
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| Introduced the movable-type printing press in Europe in about 1440 |
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| Prince Henry the Navigator |
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| Sent out several ships to explore the western coast of Africa |
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| Protested false doctrines of the church by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany |
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| Sponsored Columbus' expedition |
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| The first to realize that what Columbus had discovered was a new continent |
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| Conqueror and governor of Puerto Rico, set out to find a fabled fountain of youth |
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| Crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean |
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| A Portuguese sailor working for Spain, began a three-year voyage around the world |
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| Conquered the Aztec Indians of Mexico |
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| Had developed a remarkably advanced civilization that included a calender, pictographic writing, and impressive architecture |
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| Had conquered the Inca Indians of Peru |
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| Marched northward from Mexico, searching in vain for the treasures of those legendary cities |
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| Explored Forida and Georgia and parts of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee |
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| Explored the coast of California and possibly Oregon. |
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| Under him and his father, Spain became the most powerful nation in the world |
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| Under the leadership of Queen Elizabeth I, England became, in various ways, a threat to the financial well-being of the Spanish Empire |
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| Attacked Spanish ships bound for Spain from the New World and took their cargoes of gold and silver |
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| Led an expedition that discovered the St. Lawrence River |
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| Established the first permanent French settlement in the New World at Quebec, Canada |
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| Jacques Marquette and Lois Joliet |
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| Led an expedition which explored the central Mississippi River |
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| Robert Cavalier de la Salle |
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| Sailed down the Illinois River to the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico |
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