European Exploration

By ike12345
  • 1000 CE

    1000 CE

    A Viking named Lief Erickson sailed from Greenland to Canada.
  • 1271 CE

    1271 CE

    Marco Polo left Europe to go to Asia when he was 17. It took 4 years to get to China. 200 years later Marco Polo influenced Europeans to go to Asia.
  • 1453 CE

    1453 CE

    The Turks conquered Constantinople.
  • 1488 CE

    1488 CE

    Bartholomeu Dias was the first to sailall the way around the southern tip of Asia.
  • 1492 CE

    1492 CE

    In 1492 Martin Behaim made the first globe.
  • 1498 CE

    1498 CE

    Vasco da Gama reach India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope