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Moctezuma was the fifth aztec emperor of Tenochtitlan. He took power in 1414. One of the aztecs greatest achievements while he ruled were the double aqueduct pipe system, supplying Tenochtitlan with fresh water.
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Christopher Columbus beleived he could reach Asia by sailing West instead of East around Africa. Columbus persuaded Queen Isabella of Spain to finance an exploratory expedition. In October of 1492, Columbus reached the Americas, where he explored the coastline of Cuba and the island of Hispaniola.
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John Cabot was a venetian seaman that explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England. Cabot was sent to find Hy-Brazil, an island sais to lie somewhere in the atlantic ocean.
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Vasco da Gama arrived off the port of Calicut 1498 from his voyage around the cape and cut across the Indian Ocean.
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Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine, who went along on several voyages. On the first of his voyages, he was aboard the ship the discovered the South America extended further than previously thought. His letters describing the lands he saw, led to the use of the name America (after Amerigo) for the new lands.
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An atlantic slave trade began in 1500. As many as 10 million ensalved Africans wer brougth to the Americas between the early 1500s and the late 1800s.
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This was the time when europeans began to expand into the rest of the world. First it was Portugal and spain, then later it was The Netherlands, Englang, and France, who all rose to new economic heights through their worldwide trading system.
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Ferdinand Magellan persuaded the King of Spain to finance his voyage to Asia through the Western Hemisphere. He set sail in September 1519 down the coast of South America in search of a sea passage through America. Magellan's expedition became the 1st expedition to set sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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Hernan Cortes was known as The Spanish Conqeuror of Mexico. People like Cortes wanted to convert the natives to Christianity. Hernan brought steel weapons, gun powder, and horses.
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In December of 1530, Francisco Pizarro landed on the Pacific Coast of South America. He had only a small band of about 180 mean. Like Hernan Cortes, he brought steel weapons, gun powder, and horses. Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador, who conquered the Inca Empire.
