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He gathered cartographers and started a school for navigators.
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He rounded the southern tip of Africa.
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Discovered America by sailing west with the three small ships: Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
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Columbus met the Taino indians. Other conquistadors also visited them bring guns, horses, and diseases.
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Pope Alexander set this to divide the non-European world into two zones.
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It was signed between two countries, unlining the specific terms from the Line of Demarcation.
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An explorer who traveled from England to Newfoundland and all the way back to England.
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Led four ships aroun the Cape of Good Hope.
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He worked with the English and the Dutch to get some of the luxuries from the Spanish and the Portuguese.
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Thanks to him, the Portuguese were able to reach the Indian Ocean.
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He became king of Africa and called on the Portuguese to help him develop Kongo as a modern Christian state.
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He wrote a journal about his voyage to Brazil. A German cartographer named Martin Waldseemuller used Amerigo Vespucci's name to name the region the "Americas."
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He traveled along Cental America to South America.
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He set out from Spain with 5 ships to find a way to reach the Pacific. He was the one who changed the Balboa's South Sea to the Pacific Ocean. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
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Captured and destroyed the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.
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The Spanish began bringing Africans to the Americas as slave laboreres by the 1530s.
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A Spaniard who was interested in the Inca's riches.
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He traveled from France to Newfounland.
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He condemned the encomienda system and passed the New Laws of Indies, bringing in workers from Africa.
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The University of Mexico was established.
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A Jesuit priest who greatly influenced the Chinese.
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Formed by a group of wealthy Dutch merchants that had full sovereign powers.
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He traveled from the Netherlands to Newfoundland. The Hudson River was named after him.
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They invaded Korea before it had fully recovered from previous incasions. Korea became one of Manchus's tributary states.
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They refused to trade with anyone. Japan reamained isolated for more than 200 years.
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This was built by the Dutch immigrants. The people who settled here were the Boers.
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The French claimed present-day Canada as one of their colonies.
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They began to push north from the Cape Colony.
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The French and the Indians came together to fought off the English. This war lasted until 1763.
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It officially ended the worldwide war and ensured British dominance in North America.
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He arrived in China at the head of a British diplomatic mission.
