Early Explorers

  • Leif Erickson
    1000

    Leif Erickson

    He was blown off by a storm and some how made it to North America.
  • Bartolomeu Dias
    1488

    Bartolomeu Dias

    Sailed from Portugal. Then made it to the bottom of africa.
  • Prince Henry the Navigator
    1491

    Prince Henry the Navigator

    Prince Henry the Navigator although was not a sailor or a navigator he helped a lot with the exploration along the west coast of Africa
  • Christopher Columbus
    1492

    Christopher Columbus

    He had sailed the ocean blue for Spain. He was trying to get to Asia and had thought he had landed there but he actually was in America
  • Vasco Da Gama
    1497

    Vasco Da Gama

    Vasco Da Gama had sailed all around Africa. He also won a European boat race.
  • AMerigo Vespucci
    1497

    AMerigo Vespucci

    He was a italian merchant and a navigator. He also participated in the last 2 voyges of the age of discovery he did this for spain and for portugal.
  • Vasco Nunez de Balbo
    1501

    Vasco Nunez de Balbo

    He was a Spanish explorer. And a governor. He had crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific
  • Francisco Pizarro
    1513

    Francisco Pizarro

    A conquistador who explored the Andes Mountains of South America
  • Juan Ponce de Leon
    1513

    Juan Ponce de Leon

    He explored modern day florida in search of the fountain of youth
  • Hernando de Soto
    1514

    Hernando de Soto

    He explored florida and discovered the mississippi river.
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    He was a Portuguese explorer. He organised the Spanish expediton.
  • Hernando Cortes
    1519

    Hernando Cortes

    He was a conquistador who explored Mexico. He also conquered the Aztec.
  • Alavr Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
    1527

    Alavr Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.
  • Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
    1540

    Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

    He discovered the grand Canyon. And also was looking for the city of gold
  • Jaun Cabrillo
    1542

    Jaun Cabrillo

    explorer best known for investigations of the West
  • Samuel de Champlain
    1567

    Samuel de Champlain

    Samuel de Champlain was a French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.
  • John Cabot

    John Cabot

    He sailed for the english an searched for the passage to the pacific
  • Jacques Cartier

    Jacques Cartier

    He claimed land to france sailed down to saint Lawrence
  • Henry Hudsen

    Henry Hudsen

    led a dutch experition
  • rene-robert de la salle

    rene-robert de la salle

    René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America.