kobi martin exploration timeline

First Guns Appear in Europe

Nov 7, 1347

Gunpowder was invented in China in the Ninth Century. Gunpowder, as well as the devices it was used in at the time, mainly cannon, made its way to europe through trade. These were mostlikely taken along the silk route.Technologies using gunpowder developed more in the west than in the east where it was invented.

School of Navigation

Nov 8, 1418

A school dedicated strictly to navigation was opened in portugal. It was founded by henry the navigator. He recruited some of the explorers he sponsored to teach at this school.

First caravel built

Nov 8, 1420

The Caravel was created to be able to sail in the shallow waters near the shore. It used a triangular lanteen sail. nearly all the spanish and portuguese explorers used caravels for their speed and ability to sail in shallow waters.

Guttenberg Bible printed

Nov 8, 1440

This new moveable type made it easier to sprerad knowledge of new discoveries, technologies and other news. It also gave the explorers another reason to try and convert the heathens because they were now able to provide them with literature. this event marked the beginning of a huge growth in knowledge and literacy.

Beginning of the Renaissance

Nov 8, 1453

this event openned a time of great curiosity and greed which fueled the exploration age. this also marked when genoese began to financially support portugals efforts to find an eastern route to Asia. it also started the secularization of Europe.

navigation by the stars beggins to greatly improve

Nov 8, 1465

the Stars had been used for ages to navigate the seas. improved instraments like the sextant began to replace older ones such as the astrolabe. general knowledge of heavenly bodies increased and star maps were created.

John Cabot sails into Northern Atlantic

Nov 8, 1496

Cabot sailed to explore the regions that were known by the vikings and Norsemen. these regions were still mainly unexplored to the knowledge of most of europe. He sailed to Iceland,

Vasco da Gama reaches India

Nov 8, 1497

Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese sailor and the first European to reach India around the Cape of Good Hope. The first european to round the Cape of Good Hope was Bartholomeu Dias just ten years earlier. This route had been long sought out by Europeans and this quickly became the primary route of sea trade between Europe and India/Asia.

Columbus Discovers the American Continent

Nov 8, 1498

Christopher Columbus was the first European to reach the "new world". At the time he discovered it he believed he was in Asia. He arrived in the Caribbean region and visitedd several of the islands in the area.

Amerigo Vespucci realizes the presence of a new continent

Nov 8, 1499

Vespucci Goes to Explore along the route that columbus found to get to "Asia" and sails along the south american coast. Vespucci eventually realizes that this is not Asia but a new continent or new world. These continents are eventually named after him.

A Map of the New world Uses the name "America"

Nov 8, 1507

A Map of the New World use the name America as a title for the region in honor of Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci is the Man Responsible for recognizing that what columbus had found was a different continent. This news of an entire new continent set off an explosion of interest in exploring this new region and taking posetion of it.

Balboa crosses the isthmus of panama and discovers the pacific

Nov 9, 1513

Balboa was led across the isthmus by a native american guide. He was the first European to see the pacific ocean. He brought back the knowledge that there was an entire other ocean between Europe and Asia.

Small pox begins to spread in the Americas

Nov 9, 1514

Small pox was brought to the Americas by some of the first European explorers. Diseases killed about 80% of all native americans. This massive decrease in native population paved the way for the European invasion.

The Remainder of Magellans companions return

Nov 9, 1522

Ferdinand Magellan set out from spain with five ships on a mission to find a southwestern route to Asia. Only one ship with 18 men make it back to spain.Magellans voyage was the first to successfully circumnavigate the globe.

Atahualpa killed by spainish conquistadores

Nov 9, 1533

Spainish conquistadores captured the incan emperor Atahualpa in a skirmish that left 7,000 incans dead. The beginning of the end of the incan empire came with the small pox and a massive civil war. the death of Atahualpa marked the final stages of the collapse of the incan empire.

kobi is awesome (All Day er Day)

Nov 12, 2012

I chose all of these events for their relation to the subject of exploration. Each of these events were important milestones or events in the history or development of exploration. Most of them were the development of a new technology or the dicovery of new part of the world.