Exploration

Exploration

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    exploration

  • Jan 1, 1415

    Portugaul had expanded to Muslim North Africa seizing the port of Ceuta.

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Coloumbus reaches the Carribean

  • Jan 1, 1493

    Columbus returned to spain.

  • Jan 1, 1497

    Vasco De Gama lead four ships around the cape of good hope.

    After 10months they reached the great spice port of Calicut.
  • Jan 1, 1498

    Vasco De Gama rounds Africa and reaches India

  • Jan 1, 1500

    Europeans began viewing slaves as the most important thing in african trade.

  • Jan 1, 1500

    Europeans began to view slaves as the most important thing in african trade.

  • Jan 1, 1502

    Vasco De Gama forced a treaty on the ruler of Calicut

    it lead to a vast trading empire.
  • Jan 1, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan set out with 5 ships to erach the pacific.

  • Jan 1, 1520

    Magellans ships entered a bay at the southern tip of South America.

  • Jan 19, 1521

    Magellan was killed in the Phillipines

  • Jan 19, 1522

    Magellens people finally reached Spain.

  • Jan 1, 1560

    Abraham Ortelius produced a map that showed all the continents with acurate shapes.