Age of Exploration- Abigael Meth

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • Bart Dias sailed around Cape of Good Hope
    Jan 1, 1488

    Bart Dias sailed around Cape of Good Hope

  • Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean blue in 1492
    Feb 5, 1492

    Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean blue in 1492

  • Period: Jan 1, 1493 to Jan 1, 1504

    Columbus makes three more voyages to the "Indies"

    He spent the rest of his life believing that he had landed in India.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Spain failed to produce enough food to feed it's people

  • Vasco da Gama sailed eastward across the Indian Ocean
    Feb 5, 1506

    Vasco da Gama sailed eastward across the Indian Ocean

  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa of Spain made an overland crossing of the Isthmus of Panama.
    Jan 1, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa of Spain made an overland crossing of the Isthmus of Panama.

  • Ponce de Leon sailed outward from the Carribean to the North American mainland.
    Jan 1, 1513

    Ponce de Leon sailed outward from the Carribean to the North American mainland.

  • Francisco Pizarro led 180 men and 37 horses on an expedition.
    Jan 1, 1530

    Francisco Pizarro led 180 men and 37 horses on an expedition.

    They traveled from the Isthumus of Panama to the capital of the Inca Empire.
  • Andreas Vesalius publishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"
    Jan 1, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius publishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"

  • Copernicus published his heliocentric theory.
    Feb 11, 1543

    Copernicus published his heliocentric theory.

  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    He proves that temperature and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies.
  • Period: to

    European Slave Ships carried thousands of slaves each year.

  • Joeseph Priestly discover the element Oxygen

    Joeseph Priestly discover the element Oxygen

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