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In this time Arab merchants traveled from Sahara to Ghana to exchange salt for gold
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Mali captures Ghana because of Timbuktu which is the capital base for trading
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Marco Polo travels to China through the Silk Route. He trades Gun Powder for Silk, Spices and Paper
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In this time Cortes travels from Spain to Mexico. He challenged the king of the indigenous and named Mexico, New Spain. Many indigenous died because of small pox, war and some died of starvation
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Prince Henry opens a navigation school and teaches sailors, tool makers and astronomer. Due to the exploration school, exploration was more invested in
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Bartolomeu Dias explores Africa after the School of Navigation. Bartolomeu Dias a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa also known as Cape of Good Hope or Cape Town in 1488
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Vasco Da Gama reaches India, but does not get a warm welcome because his gifts did not have good value. On his next voyage he brutally crashed with muslim traders. He died because of malaria
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Diogo Dias discovers Madagascar and reaches the gate of the Red Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.
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He was a portuguese explorer who had led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth in 1519-1522. Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean: which means that it is a calm, peaceful ocean.
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He was a Portuguese explorer who was the first European to explore North America's Southwest.
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Sputnik was the first satellite to go beyond space it's launch was only revealed after its success
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Soviet Union was the first to launch a Mars mission to explore Mars. Considering that the first satellite, the Soviet Union's Sputnik, launched in 1957, it is extraordinary that only three years later the Soviet Union space program looked to extend its reach to Mars.
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The Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space.
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This was the first rocket to moon. It consists of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michel Colins. The mission was called Apollo 11
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The United States did not have a woman in space until 1983, when astronaut Sally Ride launched with the seventh Space Shuttle mission. Since then more than 40 American women have entered space
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India's first rocket to Moon Chandrayan. It found the existence of water on moon and then Chandrayan 2 was launched to check if really there is existence of water on moon. Evidence for surface water came from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper experiment on Chandrayaan-1. Initially it showed the presence of water on the sunlit side using.
