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In 1000 CE Leif Ericson was a Viking. Lief E and the Vikings sailed from Greenland to Vinland.
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Marco Polo was a trater. He tried to sail to Asia at the age of 17.
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It was captured by the Ottoman Turks,who then turned it into the capital of their empire. The fall of Constantinople.
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Bartholomeu Diaz of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south.
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Martain Bahaim made the first globe in Europe. He called it the earth apple.
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Vasco Da Gama got to Asia with a water rout, and brough back a the rich.