Explored and brought goods back to his home town from China.
Marco Polo
100
A spanish explorer who became the first governer of Puerto Rico. He was also the first European to explore Florida while looking for the famous "Fountain of Youth."
Ponce De Leon
100
Known as the founder of Louisiana, in 1696, he captured all of the English Settlers on the coast of new-found land. He led a rebellian against the English on Hudson Bay.
Iberville
200
Who was responsible for the early development of European exploration, traded with other countries, and gained appointment as the new governer?
Prince Henry the Navigator
200
Hernando De Soto Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquest of Centeral America and Peru. In 1539, set out on an expedition to North America, where he discovered the Mississippi River.
Hernando De Soto
200
In 1701, he founded the first significant European post west of the Allegheny Mountains, naming it Detroit.
Antoine Codillac
300
An Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, whom's voyage led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas. He was inspired by Marco Polo.
Christopher Columbus
300
Claimed the entire valley of the Mississippi for his country, France. He also made friends with the Native Americans, and explored the Ohio and Mississippi River.
Robert Lasalle
300
Known as the father of Louisiana, he was the governer of Louisiana, and also helped establish a charity hospital.
Beinville
400
These explorers were sent to look for a route to the Pacific Ocean. Their expedition proved that the Mississippi River flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.
Marquette and Joliet
400
This explorer was a bourban monarch ruled as king of france and Navarre. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is one of the longest in French and European history.
King Louis XIV
500
Antoine Crozat This Explorer private proprietary owner of French Louisiana, in 1712 was given a fifteen-year charter to settle and develop the Louisiana colony, he was also one of France's richest men.
Antoine Crozat
500
Left men at the mouth of the Arkansas to establish a trading post there, later becoming the town of Arkansas.