•Prince Henry the Navigator
• Set up first European school for navigators
• Worked with others to design and build other ships
• Sent explorers south along Africa’s west coast.
• Portuguese Explorers
• Found gold dust, ivory, and slaves
• Became more interested in trade than discovery
Sir Martin Frobisher
• Sailed the coast of Greenland
• Discovered the bay that bears his name in northern Canada
• Bartolomeu Dias • Portuguese captain who first sailed around the tip of Africa
• Named the southern tip of Africa the Cape of Storms
• Vasco da Gama • Orders for the King to “proclaim the Christian Faith” and “wrest kingdoms and new states from the hands of the Barbarians
• Led first Portuguese convoy to India
• Christopher Columbus • Sailed west for waterway to India
• Explored the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola
• Later explored the coasts of Venezuela and Central America
• Died convinced he found a new way to India
• Papal line of demarcation
• Imagine line from North to South pole
• Non-Christian land east of the line went to Portugal and land west of the line went to Spain
• Treaty of Tordesillas • Treat that gave land west of the line of demarcation to Spain and land east of the line to Portugal
• Portugal is able to claim Brazil
• Hernando Cortes • Explored Mexico• Spread smallpox• Destroyed Aztec
empire• Took large
amounts of gold
• Francisco Pizarro • Explored Peru• Conquered Incas• Built Lima, Peru• “The City of Kings”• Took gold and
silver from native Americans
• Magellan • Looked for western route to the East Indies
• Strait of Magellan named after him
• He renamed the great South Sea the Pacific ocean
• Circumnavigated the world
• John Cabot • Explored Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
• Looking for a North west passage to India
• Claims land for England
• Giovanni da Verrazano • Sailed along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to New York
• Italian navigator who sailed for France