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1. He planted a cross on Gaspe Bay's shore in Quebec. It was engraved with the words 'Long Live the King of France'

2. Like his mentor Hudson, Cartier wanted to find a Northwest Passage to India and the Spice Islands

3. On his 1534 voyage to Canada he explored Newfoundland, and made his way up the St. Lawrence River

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1. He made two unsuccessful sailing voyages in search of an ice-free passage to Asia

2. He embarked on a third voyage funded by the Dutch East India Company that took him to the New World and the river that would be given his name

3. Three waterways were named after him; the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait.

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1. John Cabot was born 'Giovanni Caboto', and the name Caboto is translated as 'coastal trader'

2. He was a Venetian explorer and navigator known for his 1497 voyage to North America

3. He claimed land in Canada for England

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1. The Spanish nicknamed Drake "El Draque", which means "The Dragon"

2. The King of Spain put a bounty on Drake's head of 20,000 ducats

3. English admiral Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe from 1577-1580, helped defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588 and was the most renowned seaman of the Elizabethan era

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1. He was the second cousin once removed to conquistador Francisco Pizarro who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru

2. Although most people call him Hernan today, he went by Hernando or Fernando during his lifetime

3. He was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain

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1. He helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent

2. Ávila, reportedly jealous of Balboa, had him beheaded for treason in 1519

3. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World

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1. Columbus thought he could sail straight to China by crossing the Atlantic Ocean

2. It would turn out that Columbus was wrong. The Earth was much larger than he thought and there was another land, the Americas, between Europe and Asia

3. He set sail on August 3, 1492 with three ships named the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria

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1. He was the second cousin once removed of Hernan Cortes

2. He conquered Peru. Three years later, he founded the nation's new capital, Lima

3. He "discovered" the Incan empire and conquered it brutally and quickly

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1. He led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world

2. He discovered a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean that is today called the Straits of Magellan

3. Had a fleet of five ships, set to discover a sea route to the spice islands

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1. He was commissioned by the Portuguese king to find a maritime route to the East

2. He discovered a sea route to India in 1497-1498

3. He was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India, around the Cape of Good Hope

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1. He led China to become the superpower of the Indian Ocean

2. Considered to be “the world's most important crossroads of trade"

3. He went on seven major expeditions to explore the world for the Chinese emperor and to establish Chinese trade in new areas

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1. Opened the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.

2. First European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa.

3. Dias named the tip of Africa 'Cape of Storms' because of the storm they had encountered when they first sailed past it