>| Explorer |
Years of Exploration
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Accomplishments of Explorer |
| Portugal | ||
| Bartolomeu Dias | 1487-1488 | Sailed Around the southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco de Gama | 1497-1499 | Sailed Around Africa to India |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral | 1500 | Sailed to Brazil |
| Spain | ||
| Christopher Columbus | 1492-1504 | Explored the Caribbean and parts of Central America |
| Juan Ponce De Leon- | 1508-1509,1513 | Conquered Puerto Rico, Explored Florida |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | 1513 | Discovered the Pacific |
| Hernan Cortes | 1519 | Conquered Mexico |
| Ferdinand Magellan | 1519 | Crew Circled the World |
| Francisco Pizarro | 1531 | Conquered the Incas in Peru |
| Francisco Coronado | 1540 | Explored South Western of United States |
| Hernado De Soto | 1539--1543 | Explored to Mississippi River |
| England | ||
| John Cabot | 1497 | Explored the East Coast Of North America |
| Henry Hudson | 1610-1611 | Explored the Hudson Bay of Canada |
| Netherland | ||
| Henry Hudson | 1609 | Explored Hudson River of New York |
| France | ||
| Giovanni De Verrazano | 1524 | Discovered New York Harbor |
| Jaques Cartier | 1534 | Explored St Lawrence |
| Samuel de Champlain | 1603 | Explored St Lawrence, Settles Quebec |
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