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Nov 4, 1000
Viking Exploration- Leif Eriksson
Eriksson is considered by many to be the first European to reach North America, centuries ahead of Christopher Columbus. -
Nov 9, 1394
Prince Henry sponsers Portuguese exploration
Prince Henry was involved in the age of discovery because he sponsered some of the ships that left to try and discover the new world. -
Nov 7, 1418
Zheng He possibly reaches America
He commanded seven naval expeditions almost a century before the Portuguese reached India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa. Someone found a book from 1418? in a bookstore that was belived to be all his writtings from the travling that he did. -
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Nov 18, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo first demonstrated that brazil and the west indies did not repersent Asia's eastern outskirts. -
Nov 18, 1519
Hernan Cortez-Conquest of the Aztecs
It was a spanish campaign that begun in February of 1519, they was declared victorious, meaning they won when they ended up capturing the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. -
Nov 18, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521 set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands. En route he discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean. -
Dec 24, 1524
Vasco De Gama
was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. a Gama's discovery of the sea route to India was significant and opened the way for an age of global imperialism and for the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia.
