Age of Exploration Timeline Project- Chloe Roberts, David Tran, Kaylah Erazo, and Asare Charles
By ChloeRR
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Prince Henry, the prince of Portugal became aware of the sub-Saharan trade routes and became obsessed with learning more about Africa and its riches. He began to sponsor voyages into the Atlantic and down the coast of Africa. -
The Age of Exploration was the time period from approximately the 15th century to the 17th century when a number of seafarers from several European countries explored, colonized, and conquered regions across the globe.
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Portuguese explorer, Bartolomeu Dias set off in search of a water route to Asia. He ultimately failed in this expedition, but he became the first explorer to round the southernmost tip of Africa and prove that the Atlantic and Indian oceans flowed into each other. -
Cabot sailed for England and was the first European since Viking times to reach the North American mainland. England wanted in on the trade routes of Asia and hoped a way they could do this was by exploring the North. -
On May 20, 1498, Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, rounded the southernmost tip of Africa, and became the first explorer to reach the Indian subcontinent. His discovery of this sea route helped the Portuguese establish a colonial empire in Asia. -
Christopher had completed three voyages so far and had yet to complete his intended goal. Though he made some remarkable discoveries in his past voyages, such as the discovery of the Americas, he had yet to achieve his intended goal, which was to find a water route to Asia, so that was the main purpose of the fourth voyage. Ultimately, he failed but was still able to explore and make discoveries in unmarked parts of Central America. -
Spanish explorer and conquistador Hernan Cortés landed on the coast of Mexico with 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons. They then captured and demolished the capital city of Tenochtitlán in a brutal assault in 1521. -
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who was the first European to circumnavigate the globe, proving that the world was round and larger than thought, discovering new oceans and land, and proving that all oceans and landmasses were connected. -
Hernan Cortes, a European explorer, finally conquered the Aztec tribe. After being mistaken for the great god Quetzalcoatl, he was let right into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, but after tensions rose, war broke out between the Aztecs and Cortes, which resulted in an Aztec massacre and a successful conquer for Spain, from Cortes. -
French explorer Giovanni da Verazzano sailed along the coast of North America and discovered many islands and bays that would be useful to inhabitants in the future. His explorations gained more insight into European knowledge about the East Coast of North America. -
On his conquests in South America, Francisco Pizzaro founded Lima, Peru which he originally named Ciudad de los Reyes which means “City of the Kings”. He had previously destroyed the old capital Incan capital Cuzco and replaced it with Lima. -
French explorer, Jacques Cartier, explored the St. Lawrence River as far inland as modern-day Montreal. His discoveries and explorations laid the basis for later French claims of the New World, or North America. -
Sir Francis Drake of England circumnavigated the globe and his goal was to establish English dominance over other kingdoms. He also explored and claimed the west coast of North America or the New World for England. -
Hoping to exploit trade in East and Southeast Asia and India, a group of English merchants formed the East India Company by royal charter. -
The Dutch East India Company was the first multinational trading corporation ever established to protect trade in the Indian Ocean and to aid in the Dutch War of Independence from Spain. -
Janszoon was sailing for the Dutch East India Company which sent him to find more islands and people to trade with in the East Indies. He sailed past New Guinea and southward, landing in Queensland, on the northern tip of Australia. -
Henry Hudson, an English explorer, was originally hired by the Dutch East India Company to find a short passage to India. This ended as a failure, but in the process, he made many discoveries in America, including the Hudson River, which he used as a major highway on his travels. -
Tasman sailed for the Dutch East India Company, which sent him to explore the ocean east of Australia. During his voyage, he discovered and sighted several islands including Tasmania, New Zealand, Fiji, and Tonga. -
French Explorer Robert de La Salle was sent by King Louis XIV to travel south from Canada and sail down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, exploring Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. -
The Dutch explorers named their discovery in honor of holiday and the Island was later annexed by Chile in the late 19th century. -
When James Cook the European explorer was sailing from Tahti to the mainland of northwest America, he discovered the Hawaiian Islands which he named the Sandwich Islands. He landed on the island of Kaua’i being the first European to make contact with the locals.