Age of Discovery

Leif Erickson

Nov 8, 970

Leif Erickson was an Icelandic explorer and the first known European to have discovered North America. Leif and his crew traveled from Greenland to Norway in 999 AD. According to the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif apparently saw Vinland for the first time after being blown off course on his way to introduce Christianity to Greenland. Source: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson)

Zheng He

Nov 8, 1371

Zheng He (1371–1433 or 1435), formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming dynasty. Born Ma He, Zheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433. Source: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He)

Prince Henry

Mar 4, 1394

Infante Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Henry the Navigator. Prince Henry the Navigator (Dom Henrique) was the son of King João of Portugal, born in 1394. He is most famous for the voyages of discovery that he organized and financed, which eventually led to the rounding of Africa and the establishment of sea routes to the Indies. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Navigator)

Christopher Columbus

Nov 8, 1451

Christopher Columbus (1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. He and his sailors crossed the Atlantic Ocean, not knowing where they would land. It was a voyage into the unknown. After Columbus, other Europeans began to explore and settle in America.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus)

Amerigo Vespucci

Mar 9, 1454

Amerigo Vespucci (Italian pronunciation: [ameˈriːɡo vesˈputtʃi]; March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer (is the study and practice of making maps.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci

Vasco da Gama

Nov 8, 1460

Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His father, Estevao, was also an explorer. Vasco learned to navigate in the navy, which he joined as soon as he was old enough. In 1497, Vasco was appointed to command a ship with the goal of discovering a sailing route to India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama

Francisco Pizarro

Nov 15, 1471

1471 or 1476 – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire. He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa and claimed the lands for Spain. In 1513, Pizarro accompanied Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro

Ferdinand Mallegan

Nov 15, 1480

Date of birth around 1480, was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522,In March 1505 at the age of 25, Magellan enlisted in the fleet of 22 ships sent to host D. Francisco de Almeida as the first viceroy of Portuguese India. Although his name does not appear in any of the textbooks or other types of proof, it is known that he remained there eight years. Source: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Early_life_and_travels)

Hernan Cortes

Nov 15, 1485

1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortes was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s)

The Columbian Exchange

Nov 15, 2016

The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.[1] Invasive species of flora and fauna and communicable diseases were a byproduct of the Exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exchange

My Conclusion

Nov 15, 2016

We should celebrate the fact that Columbus was ONE of the other people who found america but besides that he did everything else wrong taking over the native's and torturing them and even taking advantage of them.

The Middle Passage

Nov 15, 2016

The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials, which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Passage