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show | Was from Genoa, Italy. He wanted to find a new trade route to Asia. On August 3, 1492 his ships set sail the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. On October 12, 1492 they landed in the Bahamas, he thought he found a route to Asia. He died in 1504.
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show | In early 1400's built an he observatory and founded a school of navigation, he also helped pay for research by mapmakers and shipbuilders.
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show | King Manuel sent him on expedition around the Cape of Good Hope. He left in July 1497 from Potugal and arrived in India in 1498. Some of the people in India speaked Portuguese. He made two more trips back and even governed a small colony.
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show | In 1501 he led a Spanish fleet to the coast of todays South America. He knew he wasn't in Asia and thought he had found a "new world." A mapmaker in Germany named this America in honor of Amerigo.
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show | Had a settlement in Panama, he had heard stories from Native Americans about another ocean farther west, and he went to find it. He and his men went through thick jungle and swamps, and in 1513 he reached a mountain in were he could see the Pacific Ocean.
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