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  • 132

    armada

    armada
    (ahr.mah.duh),or war fleet,or 132 ships to England.
  • 800

    Leif Erickson

    Leif Erickson
    explored lands west of Greenland in about the year 1000.
  • 1487

    Bartolomeu Dias

    Bartolomeu Dias
    In 1487 Bartolomeu Dias set out from Lisbon with two small caravels and a supply ship.
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    In 1492 Christopher Columbus led 90 sailors In three ships on a voyage into the the unknown.
  • 1497

    John Cabot

    John Cabot
    England sent john Cabot an Italian,to look for a northern sea route to Asia in 1497.
  • 1497

    Vasco da Gama

    Vasco da Gama
    in July 1497,after much preparation,Vasco da Gama set sail from portugal with four ships,headed for Africa
  • 1499

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Amerigo Vespucci
    in 1499 Italian Amerigo Vespucci(veh.SPOO.chee) led a voyage funded by spain.
  • 1513

    Juan Ponce de Leon

    Juan Ponce de Leon
    (pahn.suh day lee.OHN) made the first Spanish Landing on the east coast of present-day Florida in 1513.
  • 1517

    protestantism

    protestantism
    (PRAH.tuhs.tuhn.tih.zuhm), among the differences protestants
    and was catholics was that protestants did not accept the leadership of the pope.
  • 1517

    reformation

    reformation
    (reh.fuhr.may.shun),the movement led to a new from christianity.
  • 1519

    Hernan Cortes

    Hernan Cortes
    in 1519 Herman cores landed on the cost of present-day mexico. within two years.Cortes conquered the Aztec gold make Cortes and spin wealthy.
  • 1519

    Francisco Pizarro

    Francisco Pizarro
    led an army into the Inca capital in Cusco peru.
  • 1520

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan
    in 1520 Ferdinand Magellan ,a portuguese explorer who was sailing for spain,reached the southernmost tip of south America.
  • 1524

    Giovanni de Varrazano

    Giovanni de Varrazano
    in 1524 France hired another Italian, Giovanni de Varrazano to look for northern route
  • 1528

    Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

    Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
    (cuh.BAY.suh duh VAH.cuh) was part of a Spanish expedition to Florida in 1528
  • 1535

    jacques Cartier

    jacques Cartier
    in 1535 french explorer Jacques Cartier (kahr/tee/ay) sailed up the st Lawrence river.
  • 1540

    Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

    Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
    (Kawr.oh.NAH.doh). His travels took him through northern mexico and present-day Arizona and New Mexico until his expedition reached a Zuni (ZOO.nee) settlement in 1540.
  • 1541

    Hernando de Soto

    Hernando de Soto
    an expedition to explore florida and what Is today the southeastern united states.
  • 1542

    Juan Cabrillo

    Juan Cabrillo
    ()kuh.BREE.yoh) first sighted what is now California in 1542
  • Northwest Passage

    Northwest Passage
    to Asia,a direct water route through the Americas.
  • Tenant farmer

    Tenant farmer
    these tenant (TEH.nuhnt) farmers paid rent and worked for their lord for a set period each year
  • Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette

    Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette
    in the 1670s, two french explorers-a fur trader,Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette-traveled the Mississippi river by canoe
  • Robert Cavelier de La Salle

    Robert Cavelier de La Salle
    in 1682 Robert Cavelier de lasalle followed the Mississippi all the way to the Gulf of mexico