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800 BCE
Viking Exploration - Leif Ericsson
From around 800 A.D the vikings began to raid the coastal sites and taking over land. For the next three years they would leave their mark. -
Zheng He
Chinese ships explored and traded across Asia and Africa. He was also a mariner, diplomat, and a explorer. -
Period: to 2016 BCE
Viking Exploration Timeline
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was a Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republican of Genoa. -
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange was a big trade from the new world to the old world, Bringing this like plants, more population, animals, and disease. -
Middle Passage
The Middle passage also know as the triangular trade was a trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americans. They trade people, guns, sugar and raw materials. -
Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led a expedition that defeated the the Aztec Empire. -
Francisco Pizarro
He was a Spanish who led the Inca -
My conclusion
I think that we shouldn't celebrate Columbus day. -
Vasco de Gama
Vasco de Gama was a well know explorer that for sailing down the western coast of Africa and many more -
Amerigo Vespucci
He was Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially. -
Prince Henry
The Duke of Viseu better know as Henry the navigator -
Ferinand Mallegan
Born around 1480, was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian expedition to the east indies.