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Unit 2 assignment 6

explorers names

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Leif Eriksson Leif and around twenty other men were on a voyage back to Greenland from Norway when they got caught in a storm and accidentally ended up near what is now Canada.When he arrived in North America he named it Vineland because it had so many grape vines.
Prince Henry the Navigator Portuguese prince responsible for advances that made exploration possible. Started a school for navigation and financed mapmaking.
Bartolomeu Dias Explored the west coast of Africa looking for a new route to Asia. A storm blew his ships around the tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope.
Vasco de Gama He went around the good cape of hope of India.
Christopher Columbus An Italian explorer, he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean. He was also credited as the first man to circle the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan A Portuguese captain of Spanish fleet that sought a western route to Asia, he also found a passage through South America.
Bartolome de las Casas early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary in the Americas, who was the first to expose the oppression of the Indian by the European and to call for the abolition of Indian slavery
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