Important people III Exploring America
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| Massasoit | leader of the Wampanoag,
lived in Montaup, a Pokanoket village
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| Edward Winslow | Mayflower pilgrim,
one of leaders on the ship and also later at Plymouth Colony
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| Josiah Winslow | Plymouth governor from 1673 to 1680
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| Metacomet/King Philip | the second son of the sachem Massasoit,
a chief of his people 1662-1676,
his head was placed on a stake atop the fort on Burial Hill in Plymouth for 20 yrs
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| John Alderman | praying Indian,
shot and killed Metacomet in 1676
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| Benjamin Church | the captain of the first Ranger force in America
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| Leif Ericson "Lucky Leif" | Viking sailor from Iceland,
visited America cca AD 1000,
named it "Vinland the Good"
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| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian Sailor,
letters in 1490s that America was a new continent
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| Christopher Columbus | Italian adventurer,
visited America in 1492
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| Ponce de León | Spanish conquistador,
1513 set off in search of the Fountain of Youth,
claimed Florida for Spain
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| Hernán Cortés | Spanish Conquistador, wanted gold,
led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire (today Mexico) 1520s
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| Francisco Pizzaro | Spanish conquistador, wanted gold,
led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire,
captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa, 1530s
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| conquistadores | conquerors like Cortés and Pizzaro
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| Hernando de Soto | between 1539 and 1543 explored much of the south of US,
Florida, Mississippi River, Texas, Oklahoma
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| Fransisco Coronado | between 1539 and 1543 explored much of the south of US,
Mexico, Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Kansas
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| John Cabot | Italian seaman hired by Henry VII
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| Giovanni Verrazano | Italian seaman hired by french king Francis I
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| Jacques Cartier | French explorer,
discovered the St. Lawrence River in 1534,
gave France a claim to Canada
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