Western Explorations

Paleo- Indians

Jan 7, 1289

Before Christopher Columbus's voyage to the western hemisphere, people from Siberia came over by walking across a bridge of ice over to alaska and explored the whole continent. These were the first people to step foot on this land. Paleo-Indians

Vikings

May 20, 1345

Vikings Vikings were the first white people to reach america. A band of these ventureseome seafarers is believed to have exploreded part of east coast of North America about 1000 years ago.

Marco Polo

Jun 12, 1397

Made a story about how life was at other parts of asia and china. He was a European man who travled all around the Eastern Hemisphere to explore new things. This is how exploring became known and lots of people wanted to do it. So this influenced exploring the world.

Prince Henry the Navigator

Apr 25, 1433

He had people voyage out south of the cape. He also bad a caravel, a ship that can float easily in the water and take big loads on it for long voyages. This also helped for exploring the western hemisphere.

Christopher Columbus

Aug 16, 1492

Christopher Columbus, an English man took voyage and hit land of the western hemisphere. There were people there already so he named these people Indians.

Colonization

Feb 20, 1514

European moving After Christopher Columbus's discover and details about the wonderful land he saw, people started getting ready to move to a free land and starting a new life. They road boats over to colonize.

Magellen

Feb 25, 1519

This Portugese explorer wanted to travel all around the world, so he started off going to the western hemisphere. Thats when they hit land on the south part of the land which is now know as South America.

French to Canada

Feb 17, 1608

The French didn't have any permanent settlements in Canada until 1608, when Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec. Few colonists ever came to the French territory in Canada: the climate was considered undesirable, and the French government provided few incentives for them to leave France.

Slave religion

Oct 9, 1619

Christianity became alive as slaves began to combine their African religious beliefs with Christian beliefs. Then, slave owners began to have different thoughts between each other as well. Some believed that slaves were more than inferior so this meant that they should try to acquire Christian redemption, others believed that converting slaves into Christians would cause many problems because they could start thinking that they were equal to white.

French Traders

May 21, 1715

In an effort to expand France's vast fur-trading empire, a number of French traders pushed westward onto the Great Plains in the first half of the eighteenth century. Unlike the Spanish, these explorers did not attempt to establish permanent communities but instead focused on mapping navigable waterways, identifying potential Native trading partners, and searching for a route to the Pacific Ocean.

Alexander Von Humbult

Jun 30, 1801

He traveled to the south part of the western hemisphere which is latin america and south america. He wrote about his time and journey there and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years.He was the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic ocean were once joined.( South Americ and Africa)

Lewis and Clark

Jan 13, 1804

This was the first exploration to go all the way across from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This took place a little later after the Louisiana Purchase. They started through the Missouri river and went through the rockies out to California.