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

First European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa.

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

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He led China to become the superpower of the Indian Ocean

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

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

He discovered a sea route to India in 1497-1498

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

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

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

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

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He was the second cousin once removed of Hernan Cortes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He claimed land in Canada for England

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

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

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

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

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

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

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