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With Columbus arriving in America, they immediately started trading with the colonies. Crops like tomatoes, tobacco, cacao, and peanuts were traded from America to Europe.
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Spain sends Columbus on a voyage to find a trade route to Asia and they expected a successful outcome with Portugal's recent achievement. Once they made it to land Columbus originally thought they made it to East Asia. Little did they know they found new land for them. He introduced America to Europe. (technically did not fully discover it since natives lived in the Americas before he arrived) -
When he arrived at shore he originally thought he was in Asia but turns out he was in Canada. This was the earliest period anyone from europe had arrived in the 'New World'. -
He was able to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope. He found an ocean trading route and helped the development of the spice trade. -
Spain and Portugal agreed that Portugal can have all of Brazil with a treaty.Some Portuguese moved there to farm sugar.
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Hernan Cortez invaded Tenochtitlan with 100 other men, Somethings that aided in his victory was a smallpox outbreak and the Spanish had more advanced weaponry.
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He set sail in order to look for the passage to the Pacific Ocean and Asia which he did not find. He ended up sailing along the coast of the new world. He charted unknown details to European mapmakers which would help future explorers. -
After explorer Jacques Cartier arrived at the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Claiming the land near there for France. With the name 'New France' given by King Louis XIV -
He is well known for circumnavigating the earth. As he went, he preyed on Spanish ships, robbing them of their valuables. His expedition was intended to pass around South America through the Strait of Magellan and to explore the other coast. -
This was a company developed by British merchants in order to trade with the West Indies. They traded spices, cotton, silk, peppers, etc.
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The Dutch created their own company in order to trade within the East Indies, explore, and colonize. It was sponsored by the Dutch government and became very powerful. -
He founded Quebec and the New France. He established the first permanent French settlement in the Americas. He strengthened French colonies and explored northern New York, the Ottawa River, and the eastern Great Lakes. -
He set out with his crew to find the Northeast passage, but along the way, conditions became rough. He switched over to looking for the Northwest passage, but found neither. He traveled south along the Atlantic coast and into a great river. That river would be known as the Hudson from that point on. -
After the signing of the treaty with the war over, the British withheld a victory and gained new territories from France including New France.
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James Cook, an English explorer, discovers Hawaii while on his 3rd expedition with the H.M.S. Resolution and Discovery. He and his crew are welcomed as gods until a crewmate dies and they are revealed as normal mortals. Roughly a month and a half after his second trip to Hawaii, Cook is killed by the Natives and the Resolution and Discovery go back to England. -
On May 13, 1787, Arthur Phillip leads a 252-day voyage towards the newly discovered Australia. There Phillip and his men create a penal colony at Botany Bay.
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Matthew Flinders sails in the HMS Investigator to explore New Holland's (modern day Australia) coast. He becomes the first to circumnavigate the continent.
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René Caillié is the first person in Europe to return from Timbuktu alive. He gains a desire to become an explorer after being part of a crew for a French naval vessel and sails to Timbuktu. He stays there for 2 weeks then returns to France.
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James Clark Ross leads an expedition in the scattered islands of Nunvat that gets trapped in ice. He then leads overland expeditions to map Arctic features. While there he discoveries the Magnetic North Pole, which has since moved. -
Charles Darwin joins the HMS Beagle and spends the next five tears exploring. His discoveries include the Galápagos. His discoveries would later lead to the discovery of the theory of evolution. -
John Franklin leads an expedition to explore the Arctic. Both ships on the voyage get lost in the ice. The search for Franklin's expedition later leads to the discovery of a Northwest Passage in the Canadian Artic.
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Paul Du Chaillu sails to Central Africa and spends nearly 4 years exploring from 1856 to 1859. While exploring Chaillu discoveries gorillas becoming the first modern European to see gorillas. Further into his explanation he discoveries the Pygmy people of central Africa.