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  • Prince Henry the Navigator
    Jan 1, 1445

    Prince Henry the Navigator

    More infoAlthough he never sailed Prince Henry the navigator did sponser many discovatory voyages and started a school for navigation, mapmaking, and shipbuilding. He is best known for maping and sponsering expeditions throughout the atlantic ocean and along the coast of Africa. From1444 to 1446, Prince Henry made his greatest discoveries, sending ship after ship down the coast of Africa making many new maps.
  • Bartolomeu Dias
    Jan 1, 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias

    More InfoBartolomeu Dias is best known for sailing around the southern tip of Africa opening trade routs between Europe and Asia. His original intention was to search for lands of Prester John, a legendary Christian priest and African king, but in the process he rounded africa and found his way toi asia.
  • Christopher Columbus
    Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    More InfoChristopher Columbus is known for his accidental discovery of the Americas in his attempt to find Asia and India. Columbus led many expeditions to the new world all the while thinking it was Asia. He is not the first European to have been to the Americas as the Vikings had been in modern day Canada centuries before, but he is credited for being the first to encourage new expeditions and discoveries.
  • Juan Ponce de León
    Nov 1, 1493

    Juan Ponce de León

    More InfoPonce de Leon is credited for leading the first expedition to Florida and for giving it its name. Acording to legend his reason for exploring Florida was his attempt to find the "fountain of youth." He was one of the gold driven explorers and most of what he discovered was found becasue he was searching for either gold or his magical foutain.
  • Vasco da Gama
    May 20, 1498

    Vasco da Gama

    More Info Gama was a Portuguese explorar that is credited with navigating an ocean route form Portugal to India. he was one of many exolorers that made this trip around the southern tip of Africa around the same time but his claim to fame is his direct route and his trade with Muslim Indians he met in India.
  • Amerigo Vespucci
    Jan 1, 1507

    Amerigo Vespucci

    More Info Amerigo Vespucci is credited for being a major name in founding, wait for it, the Americas. he was a navigator that is credited for the exploration of north and more promenantly south america.
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa
    Sep 25, 1513

    Vasco Núñez de Balboa

    More infoVasco Núñez de Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore. In 1500, Balboa sailed from Spain to Colombia, South America. in 1510 he stowed away on a boat from Santo Domingo to San Sebastian. and then in 1511 he founded the first European settlment in South America. two years later he crossed the mountains in the center of the peninsula and became the first European to look out on the Pacific ocean.
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    Sep 20, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    More infoFerdinand Magellan was the first man to sail around the earth. He is also known for naming the pacific ocean.
  • Hernán Cortés
    Aug 13, 1521

    Hernán Cortés

    more infoHernán Cortés was a spanish explorer famously known for his exploration of south america as well as his conquering of the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
  • Francisco Pizarro
    Jan 1, 1533

    Francisco Pizarro

    Francisco Pizarro was a spanish explorer who travled along Peru and is known for his relations with the Incan people.By relations i mean his distruction of. He found gold and silver in south america.