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Exploration of North America
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Exploration_of_North_America
GPTKB entity
Statements (67)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:contactWith
gptkb:Native_American_tribe
gptkbp:explores
gptkb:British_Empire
gptkb:Russian_Empire
gptkb:Spanish_Empire
gptkb:Dutch_Republic
gptkb:French_Empire
Portuguese explorers
Scandinavian explorers
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Exploration of North America
gptkbp:mainPeriod
16th century
17th century
18th century
15th century
gptkbp:notableEvent
gptkb:Bering's_exploration_of_Alaska_(1741)
gptkb:Champlain's_founding_of_Quebec_(1608)
gptkb:Coronado's_expedition_to_the_American_Southwest_(1540–1542)
gptkb:Cortés's_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire_(1519–1521)
gptkb:Hudson's_search_for_the_Northwest_Passage
gptkb:Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition_(1804–1806)
gptkb:Mackenzie's_crossing_to_the_Pacific_(1793)
gptkb:Ponce_de_León's_landing_in_Florida_(1513)
gptkb:Portolá's_expedition_to_California_(1769)
gptkb:Thompson's_mapping_of_western_Canada
gptkb:Verrazzano's_exploration_of_the_Atlantic_coast_(1524)
Cabeza de Vaca's journey across the Southwest
Columbus's landing in the Caribbean (1492)
Cook's mapping of the Pacific Northwest
Frobisher's search for the Northwest Passage
John Cabot's voyage to Newfoundland (1497)
La Salle's exploration of the Mississippi River
La Vérendrye's exploration of the northern plains
Pike's exploration of the American West
Smith's exploration of Virginia
gptkbp:notableMission
gptkb:Alexander_Mackenzie
gptkb:Christopher_Columbus
gptkb:Gaspar_de_Portolá
gptkb:Hernando_de_Soto
gptkb:John_Smith
gptkb:Lewis_and_Clark
gptkb:Samuel_de_Champlain
gptkb:Sir_Francis_Drake
gptkb:Giovanni_da_Verrazzano
gptkb:Pierre_Gaultier_de_Varennes,_sieur_de_La_Vérendrye
gptkb:René-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle
gptkb:David_Thompson
gptkb:Henry_Hudson
gptkb:Jacques_Cartier
gptkb:Martin_Frobisher
gptkb:Vasco_Núñez_de_Balboa
gptkb:Vitus_Bering
gptkb:Juan_Ponce_de_León
gptkb:Álvar_Núñez_Cabeza_de_Vaca
gptkb:Hernán_Cortés
gptkb:John_Cabot
gptkb:Zebulon_Pike
gptkb:Francisco_Vázquez_de_Coronado
gptkb:Juan_Rodríguez_Cabrillo
James Cook
gptkbp:resultedIn
cultural exchange
spread of European diseases
colonization of North America
conflict with indigenous peoples
mapping of North America
transatlantic trade
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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