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viking exploration
from 700-1100AD vikings were the pirates of the northern waters. Viking, translated as "a raid pirate", in "old Norse". Leif Eriksson was the son of Erik the Red, founder of the first European settlement on what is now called Greenland. Around A.D. 1000 -
Zheng He possibly reaches America
Zheng He, formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming dynasty -
Prince Henry sponsors Portuguese exploration
Henry the Navigator was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1394. Although he wasnt a sailor or a navigator, he sponsored a great deal of exploration along the west coast of Africa. Under his control, Portuguese crews founded the country's first colonies and visited regions previously unknown to Europe -
Columbus’ First Voyage
Columbus was an Italian–born navigator sailing for the Crown of Castile in search of a westward route to Asia, to access the sources of spices and other oriental goods. This led to the discovery of a New World between Europe and Asia. -
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (1497–1499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route -
Amerigo Vespucci
Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured -
Hernan Cortez-Conquest of the Aztecs
Hernan Cortez was a Spanish conquistador, He is best remembered for conquering the Aztec empire Tenochtitlan and claiming Mexico for Spain. -
Francisco Pizarro - Conquest of the Incan Empire
Francisco Pizarro was a spanish conquistador who learned about the riches in the new world. Francisco led an army of 180 spanish soldiers to take over the incas and capture Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. -
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries. -
Middle Passage/Atlantic Slave Trade
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
