1. Bartolomeu Dias Prince Henry the Navigator NONE (1418-1420) 1487-1488
Wanted to find a sea route to
The East (India, Asia, etc.)
Test and gain scientific knowledge
Spread Christianity
Wanted to find a sea route to
The East (India, Asia, etc.)
Founded a School of Navigation
And Sailing
Sailed around the southern tip
Of Africa; the Cape of Good Hope
Portugal
Portugal
Portugal
Portugal

2. Vasco da Gama Christopher Columbus 1492, ‘93, ’98 & 1502 1497-1499
Wanted to find a sea route to The East (India, Asia, etc.)
Wanted to find a westerly sea route to The East (India, Asia, etc.)
Discovered the “New World”
(accidentally)
1st European to sail to the East (India)
Portugal
Italy
Portugal
Spain

3. Ferdinand Magellan Hernando Cortez 1519-1522 1519, 1536
Wanted to find a westerly sea route to The East (India, Asia, etc.)
“Gold” from trading
Conquistador;
“God, Glory and Gold”
1st person to circumnavigate the globe
Conquered the Aztecs
Of Mexico
Portugal
Spain
Spain
Spain

4. Francisco Pizarro Vasco Núñez de Balboa 1521, 1524, 1531-1533 1513
Conquistador;
“God, Glory and Gold”
Conquistador;
“God, Glory and Gold”
Conquered the Incas
Of Peru
1st European to see Pacific Ocean
(Claimed it for Spain)
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain

5. Juan Ponce de León Amerigo Vespucci 1509, 1513, 1521 1499, 1501 & 1512
Conquistador;
“God, Glory and Gold”
Finding the Fountain of Youth
Wanted to find a westerly sea route to The East (India, Asia, etc.)
Discovered Puerto Rico;
Explored Florida
Explored coast of Brazil;
Named the “New World”;
Had N. & S. America
Named after him
Spain
Italy
Spain
Spain/Portugal

6. Francis Drake Henry Hudson 1577-1580 1609, 1610-1611
Ordered by Queen Elizabeth I
To attack Spanish ships and lands
In the “New World”
Finding a “Northwest Passage”
To the East (Asia)
1st Englishman (3rd overall)
To circumnavigate the world;
Helped defeat the Spanish
Armada (1588)
Discovered Hudson River,
Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay
England
England
England
Netherlands
& England

7. Hernando de Soto 1538-1542 Conquistador; “God, Glory and Gold”
1st European to see
Mississippi River;
Explored SE N. America
Spain
Spain