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Marco Polo

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Went from Europe to Asia & wrote about it

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Neil Armstrong

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First man on the moon

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Found Strait of Magellan - southern tip of Africa

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Hernan Cortes

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Defeated Aztecs

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Lewis & Clark

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Explored Louisiana Purchase

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John Smith

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Founded Jamestown

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Ibn Battutah

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Muslim Scholar who traveled to n Africa

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Bartolome Dias

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1st European to sail around s. Tip of Asia

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Found Amazon river & s. America

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Francisco Pizzaro

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Found & conquered Peru; conquered inca

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James Cook

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1st European to see E. Africa & accurate map of Pacific

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John Cabot

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Found Cape Breton Island & NE Canada

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Jacques Cartier

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Named Canada & made it French. Used st. Lawrence river

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Daniel Boone

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Made path to Kentucky river & founded Boonesborough

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Henry Hudson

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Found Hudson strait, bay, & river

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Jacques Cousteau

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Scuba

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Samuel de Champlain

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Lake Huron, Quebec City

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Zhenge He

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Chinese treasure ship

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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Found Pacific Ocean; town of Darien

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Vasco de Gama

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Trade routes in India

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Sir Francis Drake

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1st Englishman to circumnavigate globe

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Leif Ericson

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Found n. America

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Roald Amundsen

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Discovered s. Pole

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Edmund Hillary

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1st to top of mt. Everest.

Yuri Garin

1st man in space.