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Marco Polo went to Kublai Khan’s, which was in China at the age of 17. He had a goal of getting one hundred priests and holy water. Polo had to do this so Khan could convert his people into Christians He was only able to get two.
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The leader who sponsored all of the explorations died in 1424 and his son ordered all of them to stop due to his political views. Another reason was the amount of money it costs to sponsor explores, china was recovered a little amount of the cost due to not being a huge trade country.
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John was born in 1450 and died in 1499 under English sponsorship he reached North America on June 24, 1947. His exact destination is debated between Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island. What is known is that he claimed the land for the English king.
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born in 1480 and died in April of 1527. He sailed under Spain and
Portugal. Sponsored by Spain he sailed from Spain around South America, discovering the Strait of Magellan. He would sail to the Philippines where he was killed, but his crew completed the trip in 1521. That journey was the first circumnavigation of the globe. -
Jacques was born in 1491 and died in 1557. He was the first person to sail the coast of st. Lawrance River, first in 1534, then in 1535, and finally in 1541-42. He was an explorer for France.
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This line was established by the sixth pope in 1493, it was used to establish the difference between Spanish and Portuguese. It was later revised in 1494
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Ferdinand Magellan's crew completes their journey after his death in the Philippines.
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The East India Trading Company was created by the dutch republic to keep the state's trade safe in the Indian oceans
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