Put the voyages by the early European explorers in chronological order.
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Leif Erikson (Norway)
1000 / Journey: Newfuondland
Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal)
1487-1488 / Journey: First European to go around Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of South Africa
Christopher Columbus (Spain)
1492, 1493, 1498 / Journey: San Salvador, Cuba, Puerto Rico...West Indies
John Cabot (England)
1497 / Greenland; Labrador; Newfoundland
Vasco de Gama (Portugal)
1497-1498 / First to reach India from Europe by sea
Amerigo Vespucci (Spain)
1497-1502 / South America and West Indies
Pedro Cabral (Portugal)
1500 / Sailed around Africa to India and Brazil
Ferdinand Magellan (Spain)
1509-1522 / First to sail around the world
Vasco de Balboa (Spain)
1513 / Sailed the Pacific Ocean
Juan Ponce de Leon (Spain)
1513 / Founded Florida
Hernan Cortes (Spain)
1519-1521 / Aztec kingdom of Mexico
Giovanni da Verrazano (France)
1524 / Eastern coast of North America
Panfilo de Narvaez (Spain)
1528 / Florida and Mexico
Franicsco Pizarro (Spain)
1522 / Inca empire of Peru
Jacques Cartier (France)
1539 / St. Lawrence River
Esteban and Father Marcos (Spain)
1539 / Canada and Quebec ; Zuni pueblos of New Mexico
Hernando de Soto (Spain)
1539-1542 / Mississippi river; American Southeast
Francisco de Coronado (Spain)
1540-1542 / America Southwest
Juan Cabrillo (Spain)
1542 / California
Sir Francis Drake (England)
1577-1580 / Around the world
Samuel de Champlain (France)
1603-1609 / The Great Lakes and Quebec
Henry Hudson (Netherlands)
1609-1611 / Hudson River and Hudson Bay
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