Learn Explorers in the Age of Discovery
Learn the most notable explorers of the Age of Discovery and what the discovered!
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- Second Circumnavigator of the World and first English circumnavigator — Sir Francis Drake
- The Discovery of Guiana and establishing the Virginia colony of Roanoke Island in 1584 — Sir Walter Raleigh
- Exploration of China and Asia — Marco Polo
- First voyage around the World by this famous explorer — Ferdinand Magellan
- Discovery of the New World by this famous explorer — Christopher Columbus
- Famous Explorer who conquered the Incas of Peru — Francisco Pizarro
- America was named after this famous explorer — Amerigo Vespucci
- First famous European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore — Vasco Nunez de Balboa
- First European to reach India by sea — Vasco da Gama
- This famous explorer established St Johns, Newfoundland — Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- First European explorer to set foot in Florida — Juan Ponce de Leon
- Voyages to Virginia and Roanoke Island and the Azores by this famous explorer — Sir Richard Grenville
- First European to explore the Southwest of North America in Arizona and New Mexico — Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
- Voyages to Labrador and Greenland in search of the Northwest Passage — Sir Martin Frobisher
- First European to explore Florida and South East America — Hernando De Soto
- Spanish conqueror of Mexico and the Aztec Empire — Hernando Cortes
- The first European explorer to lead a 1487 voyage around the Cape of Good Hope on the Southern most tip of South Africa — Bartolomeu Dias
- The first European explorer to see Brazil in 1500 — Pedro Alvares Cabral
- First European to explore the Atlantic Coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524 — Giovanni da Verrazzano
- Exploration of Greenland and the coast of Newfoundland by this famous explorer — Gaspar Corte-Real
- Exploring the coastline of Canada the subsequent colonization of Canada. Cabot was the second famous explorer to find North America (after Christopher Columbus) — John Cabot
- First European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River — Jacques Cartier
- The discovery of the Hudson River by this famous explorer — Henry Hudson
- Discovering the Mississippi River with famous Canadian explorer Louis Joliet — Jacques Marquette
- Famous explorer and founder of Quebec City. Known as 'The Father of Canada' — Samuel de Champlain
- Famous Portuguese explorer was the first to see Brazil in 1500 — Pedro Alvares Cabral
- The first European to explore Texas and Southwest America — Cabeza de Vaca
- Exploring Texas and Southwest America and heralded as having been “the first black man in North America.” — Estevanico
- The exploration of Cuba leading an ill fated expedition to Florida and North America by this famous explorer — Panfilo de Narvaez
- Discovering the Pueblo tribe called the Zuni indians. Duped into believing the myth of the "Seven Golden Cities of Cibola" — Fray Marcos de Niza
- Believed to be the first European in Texas and proved that Florida was not an island — Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
- Famous for establishing the colony of New Mexico for Spain — Juan de Onate
- Famous explorer and colonizer of South Carolina and discoverer of Chesapeake Bay — Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon
- First European explorer to navigate the coast of present day California in the United States — Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
- Famous for exploring the Great Lakes area and discovering the Mississippi River — Louis Joliet
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