Explorers and settlers

Explorers

Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Dec 31, 2011

Vikings, Leif Eriksson, Vinland

Aug 16, 1000

100ad Vikings and Leif Eriksson land on vinland. Leif sets up a base there for fishing and spending the winter there. The vikings had multiple confrontations with the native Americans there and disapeared from Vinland.

Vinland

Nov 16, 1000

Vinland was the island where Leif Eriksson landed and set up a fishing base and camp for the winter.

Marco Polo

Nov 16, 1205

Marco Polo wrote a book about the wonders he had seen in asia and the numerous goods that were plentiful there.

Constantinople

Sep 16, 1400

This city is one of the trading posts that the asians and europeans used to trade valuables, spices,and goods. Europeans wanted these goods and wanted an easier way to get them. However, the city was taken over by Muslim turkish people and the Europeans had to find a new route to asia.

Bartholomeu Dias

Nov 18, 1400

Bartholomeu Dias almost sailed around the Africa to get spices. He pushed his crew and himself to help portugal find a new route to asia to trade with the chinese, indians, and other asian cultures.

Guanahani

Nov 18, 1400

Guanahani was the island that Christopher Columbus landed on and thought that hehad reached india. This is why the native americans are called indians.

Prince Henry

Nov 16, 1430

Prince Henry started a navigating school to teach Europeans how to sail. This helped the Europeans find a water trade route to asia

Martin Behaim

Nov 16, 1492

He made the first globe and gave the Europeans a little more courage to sail.

Christopher Columbus

Nov 16, 1492

Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas and thought he was in india. this is why the native americans are sometimes called "indians".

Giovanni Caboto

Nov 16, 1497

He thought he found a water route to china, ut it was really america. He was the first Italian explorer to reach the Americas.

Vasco de Gama

Nov 16, 1498

The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama led an expedition at the end of the 15th century that opened the sea route to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa. He was born about 1460 at Sines. He was a gentleman at court when he was chosen to lead the expedition to India.
Many years of Portuguese exploration down the West African coast had been rewarded when Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.

Amerigo Vespucci

Nov 18, 1499

Amerigo Vespucci Challenged Christopher's sayings of a new water route to india because he calculated that if asia were that big, it would cover half the world. Also, it did not sound like there were marble palaces and buildings lined and created from gold, as described in Marco Polo's book.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Nov 17, 1500

Balboa was the first explorer ever to see the coast of the Pacific on the shores of the Americas. He also went through the isthmus of Panama.

Ferdinand Magellan

Nov 18, 1500

Ferdinand Magellan was the first person to sail around the world. He was also the first to sail through the strait through cape horn as a shortcut, and it was named the Magellan strait.

Vikings

Nov 18, 2011

The Vikings were a brutal group of people. They lived in Northern Europe, Greenland, Canada, and Vinland. They were the group of people that also set up camp in Vinland, or Vineland