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700 BCE
Salt for Gold
In this time Arab merchants traveled from Sahara to Ghana to exchange salt for gold -
700 BCE
Mali vs Ghana
Mali captures Ghana because of Timbuktu which is the capital base for trading -
1292
Marco Polo reaches China
Marco Polo travels to China through the Silk Route. He trades Gun Powder for Silk, Spices and Paper -
1400
Cortes meets Aztecs
In this time Cortes travels from Spain to Mexico. He challenged the king of the indigenous and named Mexico, New Spain. Many indigenous died because of small pox, war and some died of starvation -
1418
School of Navigation
Prince Henry opens a navigation school and teaches sailors, tool makers and astronomer. Due to the exploration school, exploration was more invested in -
1487
Bartolomeu Dias explores Africa
Bartolomeu Dias explores Africa after the School of Navigation. Bartolomeu Dias a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa also known as Cape of Good Hope or Cape Town in 1488 -
1497
Vasco Da Gama reaches India
Vasco Da Gama reaches India, but does not get a warm welcome because his gifts did not have good value. On his next voyage he brutally crashed with muslim traders. He died because of malaria -
1500
Diogo Dias discovers Madagascar
Diogo Dias discovers Madagascar and reaches the gate of the Red Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. -
1519
Ferdinand Magellan travels the whole World
He was a portuguese explorer who had led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth in 1519-1522. Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean: which means that it is a calm, peaceful ocean. -
1554
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado reaches Southwest America
He was a Portuguese explorer who was the first European to explore North America's Southwest. -
Sputnik travels beyond Earth
Sputnik was the first satellite to go beyond space it's launch was only revealed after its success -
Soviet Explores Mars
Soviet Union was the first to launch a Mars mission to explore Mars. Considering that the first satellite, the Soviet Union's Sputnik, launched in 1957, it is extraordinary that only three years later the Soviet Union space program looked to extend its reach to Mars. -
Woman on Space
The Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space. -
Man on Moon
This was the first rocket to moon. It consists of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michel Colins. The mission was called Apollo 11 -
Woman on Moon
The United States did not have a woman in space until 1983, when astronaut Sally Ride launched with the seventh Space Shuttle mission. Since then more than 40 American women have entered space -
Chandrayan on Moon
India's first rocket to Moon Chandrayan. It found the existence of water on moon and then Chandrayan 2 was launched to check if really there is existence of water on moon. Evidence for surface water came from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper experiment on Chandrayaan-1. Initially it showed the presence of water on the sunlit side using.
