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1st to travel west searching for a quicker route to Asia
Vespucci
Magellan
Cabot
Christopher Columbus
1st to realize the Americas were not Asia but a new land
Amerigo Vespucci
This country was the first to descover the St Lawrence River
France
1st given credit for sailing around the world even though he himself never made it
Ferdinand Magellan
Dias
Cabot
Cartier
Conquered the Aztecs in Mexico
Hernando Cortes
Conquered the Incas in Peru
Francisco Pizarro
This country explored the majority of Central and South America
Spain
This Country found the area of present day Newfoundland Canada
England
Italian who sailed for England and claimed Newfoundland for England
John Cabot
Frenchman who sailed for France and sailed up the St. Lawrence River
Henry Hudson
John Cabot
Magellan
Jacques Cartier
Frenchman sailed for France and founded the trading post of Quebec
Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Hudson
Cabot
sailed for the Dutch and claimed the land of New York for the Dutch
Vasco Da Gama
Cartier
Hudson
Champlain
This country was the first to discover the area of present day New York
Dutch
New Netherlands will eventually become known as what?
New York
What are the two Dutch settlements?
New Amsterdam and Fort Orange
What Dutch settlement becomes known as the present day city of Albany?
Fort Orange
