Explorers and Expeditions
From the beginning of time man has never been satisfied to stay in one place. Forever curious, individuals and groups have set out on new and wondrous voyages throughout history. Their stories and information can be found here.
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Apart from the usual ship's crew, Captain Cook also had the botanist Sir Joseph Banks with him. Banks classified and named many...
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um no one knows.....................
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Wealth and Power, the search for the fountain of youth would achieve that goal. Exploration was of little importance except as a...
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According to Anglo history, Sir Francis Drake died of dysentery on January 27, 1596, aged 55 while anchored off the coast of...
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They used matchlock and wheel-lock firearms, which were barrel-loading single-shot weapons that used external application of...
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It is a common misconception that Captain Cook discovered Australia. He did not. The Australian continent had been populated by...
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u will not answer it y?
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Bartolomeo ,Giovanni Pellegrino, Giacomo, and Bianchinetta
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I think he grew up in Portugal, Spain. That is what I think I am not sure. I'm 90% sure a+ is genoa Italy
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He didn't want to explore to India, the King of Portugal ordered him to find India.
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Magellan, Ferdinand (Portuguese, Fernão de Magalhães; Spanish, Fernando de Magallanes) (c. 1480-1521), Portuguese navigator and...
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Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh[1] (c. 1552 - 29 October 1618), was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer....
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He didn't. New Zealand was discovered by European explorer Abel Tasman some time after the Maori people had already settled...
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He was assigned to a collier and various other Coasters sailing between the River Tyne and London. He was a Merchand Navy...
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He didn't lose power over the Soviet Union until he died. He ruled ruthlessly until his death on March 5, 1953. i think, idk tho...
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He was around 44 years old when he died from an unspecified cause.
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Marco Polo was captured in 1298
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Although Ralegh never went to Roanoke Island - the site of the Ralegh-organized attempts at colonisation in what is now North...
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Sir Douglas Mawson was born on the 5 of May, 1882 and died on the 14th of October, 1958.
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He would respect them for the love care of life and who is one.
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No he was not a good man. He did stuff like took Indians hostige and keep then as slaves or if they disobeyed any rule he would...
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He loved lying and cheating people, and wanted, like any superficial person would, to be a conqueror and find the Fountain of...
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yes with about 200 men
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Since he sailed for Spain, it would have been the Spanish flag.
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Yes! Her dad paid 10$ for her first flight for 10 minutes. Back then 10$ was a lot but Amelia came from a wealthy family who...
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No. Sir John Franklin did not have a son. He had one child between his two marriages and it was a girl named Eleanor Isabella...
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Gaspar Corte Real was famous for his voyage to find a North-West passage to Asia and went missing on his 2nd voyage
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Yes: Lake Eyre (South Australia) Eyre Peninsula (South Australia) Eyre River (Western Australia) Eyre (small settlement in South...
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Columbus was looking for a western route to what was called "The Indies (China, Japan and the Spice Islands) so that Spain could...
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This was a time when new ideas were introduced to Europe. Up until this time Europe was still in the backwaters while...
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The former Spanish possessions in the New World, including most of South and Central America, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the...
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he impacted the world by sailing the ocean and finding America by this he brought people to settle on this new found land. he...
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He led the Spanish to conquer and destroy the Aztec Empire
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http://www.who2.com/ameliaearhart.html http://wwww.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/earh-ame.htm http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761575941...
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Humphrey is his reeal name cause Sir means he has been nighted bye a queen so his first name is Humphrey
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he found and claimed Brazil
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no I prefer to think of her as home schooled.
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My history book says he first sailed in 1492 and he was born in 1451 that would make him 41 not 14. The Queen of Spain...
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== A low of oxegen while at the top
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AnswerJOhn Cabot thpopught his first son was the best and desierved to travel with him also because his other sons were too younh
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No,because Champlain invested all his wealth and was financed by the King of France with ships,tools and settlers.He built a...
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he started the Columbian Exchange he had 4 voyageshe had 4 siblings, he was the yougesthis 3 ships were the pinta the santa maria...
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He explored in the years of 1519-1521
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There is the eldest, Ludovico, and the youngest, Sancio. Then Sebastian was in the middle.
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James Cook's voyages started from Great Britain.
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The Land Of Colten Castleberry
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Lief Erickson was the original discoverer of North America. He named it Vinland, due to the proliferation of wine berries. He...
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AnswerColumbus thought he was in East Indies, which were called the spice islands. It is a common perception due to a lack of...
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America was discovered by many different explorers, most of them of Western European ethnicity.
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He found the Grand Canyon. No, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado did not actually discover the Grand Canyon himself, a small band of...
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Zheng he was the Chinese explorer that trivled along the coast of Asia and around Africa but was called back to China so he sent...
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as a missionary Priest/explorer he was one of the first White men to see the Mississippi River, as he labored among the Indians....
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AnswerHe led 4 to the americas
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the European nations searched for a northwest passage during the 1500's because they wanted to get through the pacific ocean. ...
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1519-1521, and then he died at the Philippines.
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how dose a map of where Hernando Cortes traveled look like?
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Hernán Cortés (México, 1518-1522, Honduras, 1524, Baja California, 1532-1536) Francisco Pizarro (Perú, 1509-1535) Francisco...
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Raleigh planned in 1584 to colonize for England in the present day Virginia and North Carolina. It however was not successful...
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It's about to look for the Fountain of Youth. 1474Born in the village of Santervas de Campos in Spain. 1492Fought in the...
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Well, when Juan Ponce de Leon was in Florida with his colony that he started, a group of people decided to attack his former...
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He travilled from Italy to what is now South America
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Amerigo Vespucci married but had no children.
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Vasco Nunez de balboa didn't end up with any failers at all!!
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Only the one, when he sailed to Mexico from Spain in 1535.
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No. She was with the Lewis and Clark on their Voyage of Discovery.
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He was killed by Almagro ( Atahualpa ruler of the incas son) because he had kiled his father to conquer the Incas. But Pizarro's...
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no where. you don't know anything. Francisco Pizarro was born in Lima, Peru. Everybody knows that! who is that men who don't know...
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King James the first beheaded him on October 29, 1618.
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he had a dream when he was younger to sail the seas.
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Prince Henry's sons are Prince Waldemar, Prince Sigismund, and Prince Heinrich. prince Henry didnt Mary or have sons no offfense...
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They learned a lot of geography and that Northwest Passage did not exist. They also learned that it was taking lots of time and...
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no, that is not what Amelia Earhart said . what she said was that she has one big trip left in her and she hoped that this was...
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Ferdinand Magellan was famous for circumnavigating the earth, though he was killed toward the end of his journey. When he landed...
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he was 41 years old
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It's actually not states, but territories of Canada that surround the Hudson Bay. To the North : Nunavut Territory To the...
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It was from the 1630's-40's ....too bad it wasn't
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He was a viking... I'm sure he had problems and obstacles just like the rest of us !!
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In spring 1805, they continued to the headwaters of the Missouri River, struggled across the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass,...
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