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Prince Henry of Portugal (planner and analyzer) creates the center for exploration in Sarges as a place to share knowledge; built through wealth
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King John sent Bartholomeu Dias (explorer) to explore southernmost part of Africa then go northwest to the Indian Ocean to find a better route to India, but he got caught in a storm along the way; named Cape of Storms, changed to Cape of Good Hope by King; shore hugger
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Christopher Columbus sets out in Atlantic Ocean with 3 ships (Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria given to him by Spain; funded by Spain) to find a sea route to India
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Vasco da Gama sets out with 4 ships in a huge sweep through the Atlantic Ocean around the Cape to successfully get to India
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Alvares Cabral sets out from Portugal with 13 ships with an even wider sweep and ended up finding Brazil, which he claimed for his king and continued towards India
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Amerigo Vespucci sailed along South American coast and concluded that it was a continent and to confirm that South America was not part of Asia
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas
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Ferdinand Magellan sailed along the southernmost tip of South America and named the Pacific Ocean (to see waters Balboa talked about)
