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The process by which the Vikings sailed most or North America, reaching South America and East to Russia.
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He led the arm of Spanish forces and Native Tlaxcalan. He captured the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
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Historic records show that Zheng has explored Southeast Asia, India, the Persian Gulf and the east coast of Africa. He used navigational techniques and and ships that were far ahead of their time.
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He helped the Portuguese by capturing american slaves. He officially started the slave trade
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He convinced the Kind and Queen of Spain to finance his voyage. He was in command of three ships; the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. He discovered America and found the Natives there.
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The Middle Passage was a stage of the Triangular Trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the new world as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufacturing goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans.
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The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries. Related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.
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He was the very first person to sail directly from Europe to India. He used a different route the Columbus went.
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in 1519 Magellan left five ships to discover a western sea route to the Indies.On this way there he discovered the Straight of Magellan and was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean.
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In 1530m he returned to Panama. in 1531, he sailed down to Peru, landing at Tumbes. He led his army up the Andes mountains and on November 15, 1532 he reached the Inca town of Cajamarca, the capital of the brothers kingdom.
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He was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer. He first demonstrated that Brazil and West Indies didn't represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured.
