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Match the following: His massive fleet of over 300 ships explorec South East Asia, India, and the East Coast o Africa between 1405 and 1433. He ended up discovering the Americas but originally he thought they were the Indies and called the natives Indians a name which unfortunately stuck even through it was proven he was mistaken. Led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world although he died in the Philippines but his crew did make it back to Spain. Explored the Southern Pacific discovering the Polynesian culture, the continent of Australia, the large islands of New Zealand, and was instrumental in helping to resolve the mariner's greatest dilemma on how to calculate longitude. Just a few years after Columbus discovered the Americas this Portuguese explorer finally landed in the Indies at Calicut in 1498. He had succeeded where Bartolomeu Dias and Christopher Columbus had failed. Opportunistic ruler who saw the possibility of great profit to be made through exploration and trade and therefore