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Prax 0014 explorers
Explorers to know in history section of Praxis II 0014
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Cabot 1450-1499 | English; explored canadian coastline looked for passage to Asia |
| Christopher Columbus 1451-1506 | Italian; voyage across Atlantic in 1492 looking for new route to India, discovered N. America |
| Amerigo Vespucci 1454-1512 | Italian; first person to realize Americas were separate from Asia and were not the East Indies. Map maker in 1507 names the Americas after him |
| Juan Ponce de Leon 1458-1521 | Spanish; discovered Gulf stream and first European to set foot in Florida while searching for the fountain of youth |
| Hernan Cortez 1485-1547 | Spanish; conquistador who wiped out the Aztec Empire and claimed Mexico for Spain |
| Jacque Cartier 1491-1557 | French; discovered Canada and paved way for the French exploration of N. America |
| Fernando De Soto 1496-1542 | Spanish; explored Florida, SE US and credited for discovery of Mississippi River |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado 1510-1554 | Spanish; conquistador who explored the American SW (AZ, NM, TX, OK, KS). He killed many Native Americans because they would not convert to Christianity |
| Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618 | British; explorer, poet, historian and soldier, established English colonies in the Americas. Named the state of Virginia after Queen Elizabeth |
| Henry Hudson 1565-1611 | English; explored Arctic Ocean and NE N. America. Hudson River, Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay were named after him and he is credited with founding New York |
| John Smith 1580-1631 | Captain in English military who founding Jamestown, Virginia. He explored Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast |
| Vitus Bering 1681-1741 | Dutch explorer who explored Alaska and Siberia. The Bering Strait bears his name |
| Captain James Cook 1728-1779 | British; explorer and astronomer who led expeditions to the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica, the Arctic and around the world. Credited with discovering Hawaii |
| Robert Gray 1755-1806 | First American-born explorer to circumnavigate the globe. also explored the NW US and helped obtain the Oregon territory |
| Daniel Boone 1734-1820 | American pioneer, explorer, trapper, mountain man and soldier who founded the first US settlement west of the Appalachian Mts. Also explored the Kentucky wilderness |
| Merriweather Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) | Explored and mapped the American west. Traveled through the Louisiana Territory (Missouri to Oregon Coast) and were led by Sacagawea |
| Jedediah Smith 1798-1831 | American mountain man, hunter and fur trapper who as the first person to travel from New York to CA through the Rocky Mts. and the Mohave Dessert. Also first person to cross the Great Basin Dessert via the Sierra Nevada MTs and the Great Salt Lake |
| Kit Carson 1809-1868 | American explorer, guide, trapper and soldier who explored the SW and western US with John Fremont. In 1863 he destroyed the Navajo settlement in Canyon De Chelley and forced Native Americans on the "long walk" |
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