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The European powers (mainly Great Britain, Portugal, France, and Spain) looked to expand their empires into the East Indies and the New World. -
He tries to go to India multiple times, and eventually makes it, he establishes a series of forts and trading posts. -
Ferdinand Magellan is born on Sabrosa, Portugal, to a family of minor Portuguese nobility. At the age of 12 he travelled to Lisbon to serve as pages at queen Leonoras court. There, he is exposed to stories of the great Portuguese and Spanish rivalry for sea exploration and dominance of spice trade in the East Indies. Intrigued by the promise of fame and riches, Magellan developed an interest in maritime discovery in those early years. -
Cristopher Columbus discovers some islands but thinks hes in Asia. They began to send voyages regularly to get gold and silver to stimulate the Spanish economy. -
It was signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal. The treaty divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Crown of Castile, and Portugal. -
Great Britain wants a western route for Asia to trade. The land routes were expensive and dangerous. John Cabot found present day Canada and New England in 1497. Eventually the eastern colonies in North America are established -
Pedro Alvarez was blown off his course, and touched the coast of present-day Brazil. He established the Portuguese claim to that region. -
Ferdinand Magellan leads the first voyage around the world. He dies in the voyage but his crew makes it. -
Joao Almere’s fat under sailed from Portugal in 1520 to explore Codfish land and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. HE discovered islands between Newfoundland and St. Lawrence. He also discovered the Bay of Fundy -
He makes landfall on the coast of North Carolina and sails north. -
Later joined the race, and claimed most of present-day Canada. They founded Detroit, St. Louis, and New Orleans. -
He was a Spanish conquistador, he captured and killed the Incan emperor Atahuapla, and claimed the lands for spain -
Jacques Cartier was sent by the French king to for a passage to link the Atlantic Ocean to the pacific ocean -
Sebastian Cabot returns to the British crown with information about the Spanish and Portuguese overseas explorations. -
Thomas Wyndham brings back sugar and molasses from Guinea. -
The Tudor conquest of Ireland led to land confiscation to be used for plantations -
Samuel Chaplian comes to North America as a geographer, he works for a French fur trading company.