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1. Jacques Cartier was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France.
2. He was responsible for mapping the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Saint Lawrence River
3.Jacques Cartier explored what became known as Newfoundland, the Magdalen Islands, Prince Edward Island and the Gaspé Peninsula.

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1. He was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century
2. In 1607 and 1608, Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a rumored Northeast Passage to China via a route above the Arctic Circle.
3. n 1609 he landed in North America and explored the region around the modern New York metropolitan area, looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia

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1.  a Venetian explorer and navigator known for his 1497 voyage to North America
2. While he was there he claimed land from what is now Canada for England
3. he discovered the mainland of North America

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1. admiral Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe from 1577-1580
2. he helped defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588
3. sir Francis Drake was an English explorer involved in piracy and illicit slave trading who became the second person ever to circumnavigate the globe.

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1. a Spanish conquistador and explorer who defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain
2. he helped colonize Cuba and became a governor of New Spain.
3. Cortés first served as a soldier in an expedition of Cuba led by Diego Velázquez in 1511. In 1519 Cortés was to command his own expedition to Mexico, but Velázquez cancelled it. Cortés ignored the order and traveled with about 500 men and 11 ships to Mexico.

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1. In 1500 AD, he took part in a voyage that explored the coast of what is today Colombia
2. Balboa would eventually become governor of Veragua
3. On September 1st of 1513 Balboa, along with nearly 200 soldiers and several guides, began his journey across the Isthmus of Panama in search of the rumored "other sea".

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1. In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India
2. Christopher Columbus began a career as a seafarer at the age of fourteen and later supported himself by selling maps and charts.

3. Queen Isabella was hesitant to fund Columbus’s voyage.  It took her six years to agree. Christopher Columbus, having given up, was four miles out of town when the Queen’s courier caught up with him and shared the news.

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1. Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.
2. He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa, and claimed the lands for Spain
3. On November 10, 1509, Pizarro sailed from Spain to the New World with Alonso de Ojeda on an expedition to Uraba

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1. led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world.
2. discovered a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean that is today called the Straits of Magellan
3. As a boy, he studied mapmaking and navigation. By his mid-20s, he was sailing in large fleets and was engaged in combat.

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1. he was commissioned by the Portuguese king to find a maritime route to the East
2. he and his crew made it around the Cape of Good Hope
3.  he returned to Lisbon from India with a small cargo of spices

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1. he was the chief aide of the Yongle Emperor of China in early Ming Dynasty
2. originally named Ma He, Zheng He was born into a Muslim family around 1371
3. when he was 10 he was castrated and sent  to serve in the household of the twenty one year old Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan

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1. the first European explorer to sail around the southern tip of Africa
2. discovered what is now called the Cape of Good Hope
3. King John II appointed Dias as the head of an expedition to find a trade route to India