Age of Exploration

  • Marco Polo
    Oct 22, 1300

    Marco Polo

    Traveled Asia during the middle ages
  • Renaissance
    Oct 22, 1300

    Renaissance

  • Zheng He
    Oct 22, 1400

    Zheng He

    Led China to become the superpower of the Indian Ocean, considered to be "the world's most important crossroads of trade."
  • Prince Henry the Navigator
    Oct 22, 1400

    Prince Henry the Navigator

    He was one of the most important Portugese and world exploror
  • Bartholomeu Dias
    Oct 22, 1450

    Bartholomeu Dias

    First European mariner to round the south tip of Africa, opening a sea route from Europe to Asia
  • Fall of Constantinople
    Oct 22, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

    The fall of the city signed the end of the Byzentine Empire, and had consequences for both Christian Europe and Asia.
  • Vasco De Gama
    Oct 22, 1470

    Vasco De Gama

    Portuguese explorer that was the first European to reach India by sea.
  • Amerigo Vespucci
    Oct 22, 1470

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Italian Explorer and Navigator. "America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine navigator and explorer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World."
  • Christopher Columbus
    Oct 22, 1490

    Christopher Columbus

    Was an explorer, navigator and colonizer that found North America when he was searching for India.
  • Francisco Pizzaro
    Oct 22, 1495

    Francisco Pizzaro

    Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire.
  • Hernan Cortes
    Oct 22, 1500

    Hernan Cortes

    1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    Oct 22, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    "Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies..."
  • Henry Hudson

  • Vikings

    Vikings

    They concured many cities