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Europeans launched the first of nine expeditions known as the crusade.
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Marco Polo began writng an acount of his trip decribing the the marnels of Asia.
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Prnce Henery set up a center for exploraon the sourthertip of portugal.
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In 1481 Dias accompanied Diogo de Azambuja on an expedition to the Gold Coast. Dias was a cavalier of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses and sailing-master of the man-of-war So Cristvo.
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King John II of Portugal had appointed him on 10 October 1486 as the head of an expedition that was to endeavor to sail around the southern end of Africa in the hope of finding a trade route leading to Asia
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King sent Bartholomeu to explore the southernmost part if Africa.
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He did not know that he had sailed well beyond the tip of the continent. When calm weather returned he sailed in an easterly direction and, when no land appeared, turned northward, landing at the "Baa dos Vaqueiros" (Mossel Bay) on 12 March 1488
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It was only on the return voyage that he discovered the Cape of Good Hope in May 1488.
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Columbus set out from Palos, spain.
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was the first person to demonstrate that the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was not the eastern appendage of Asia, but rather a previously-unknown "fourth" continent.
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Columbus reached America
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at 2:00 in the morning a lookout Shuoted tierra tierra
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Two conutries signed the treaty of Tordesillas
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. In July 1497, after much preparation Vasco Da Gama set out from Portugal with four ships.
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Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, on July 8, 1497, heading to the East
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After many stops in Africa, and problems with Muslim traders who did not want interference in their profitable trade routes, da Gama reached Calicut, India on May 20, 1498.
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Vasco Da Gama reached the port of Calicut in 1498 copleting the long waited easyern sea route to Asia.
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Da Gama returned to Lisbon, Portugal, in September, 1499
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Explorer Amerigo Vespucci began mapping South America's coastline.
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The Spainish goverment granted each conquistador who settle in the Americas into slaves.
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In 1507, Martin Waldseemller produced a world map on which he named the new continent America after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo. In an accompanying book, Waldseemller published one of the Vespucci accounts, which led to criticism that Vespucci was trying to usurp Christopher Columbus' glory.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was part uf a Spainish expedition to Florida.
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The Spainards set off on a great 1,00 mile journey
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French explorer Jacques Catier sailed up the st. Lawrence River hoping it would lead to the Pacific.
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Arriving in Mexico Cabez de Vaca related taes he had heard of sven cities with walls of emarld and streets of gold.
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The spanish goverment passed the New Laws which forbade making slaves of Native Americans.
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The countries sent explorers to chart the coast of North America.
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The roup sent Samuel de Champlain to estash a settlement inQuebec in what is now Canada
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Hudson discovered the river that now bears his name.
