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| Bartolomeu Dias | Sailed around the southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco da Gama | Sailed around Africa to India |
| Pedro Alvares Clabral | Sailed to Brazil |
| Christopher Columbus | Explored the island of the Caribbean Sea |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Explored Puerto Rico, and Florida |
| Ferdinand Magellan | First to sail around the world |
| Cabeza de Vaca | explored Spanish northern Mexico and Brizil |
| Francisco Coronado | Explored southwestern North America |
| Hernando de Soto | Expolred the mississippi and central America |
| Juan Cabrillo | Explored the west coast of North America |
| John Cabot | Rediscovered Newfoundland |
| Hennry Hudson | Explored Hudson river |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | Explored the east coast of North America |
| Jacques Cartier | Explored the St. Lawrence River |
| Samuel de Champlain | Explored the mississippi river |
| Robert de La Salle | Explored the Great lakes |
| Ben franklin | A P iladelphia printer, writer, diplomat, and inventor. |
| Anne Dudley Bradstreet | Known to write poetry |
| Pillis Wheatley | Second American woman to win fame for her poetry |
