1. New World Explorers
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2. Prince Henry the Navigator
Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal Henry started to explore the coast of Africa, and funded 50 explorations
He wanted discover the source of West African Gold trade and find Spices in Asia.
He gathered Europe’s best navigators and started a navigation school and mapmaking
Helped to start European exploration pursuits and spread his religion
He started the African slave Trade as he created sugarcane plantations

3. Bartolomeu Dias
A nobleman of the Portuguese royal household was a Portuguese explorer
The first European to sail around Cape Good Hope and found a route to the Indian Ocean

4. Vasco da Gama The first European to reach India through sea
The commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India and set up new trade routes
He paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long lasting colonial empire in Asia

5. New route for Spice Trade

6. Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was hired by Spanish monarchy
Christopher Columbus believed that Asia would be 2,400 miles west. In fact, 10,000 nautical miles lay between Europe and Asia
Christopher Columbus's first voyage with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria began on August 3, 1492.
Christopher Columbus and his crew actually discovered the island of San Salvador discovered the Carribeans

7. Columbus New World route
Columbus "discovered" (for the Europeans) many of the Caribbean Islands, South America and Central America.

8. Ferdinand Magellan He was a Portuguese explorer
He served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands“
Magellan's expedition of 1519–1522 became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean ("peaceful sea")
The Strait of Magellan named after him
His expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth (around world)

10. Hernando Cortez
A Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
The second cousin once removed of Francisco Pizarro
Aztec men greeted him with gold and silver
Montezuma, the Aztec leader, sent more gifts in hopes that Cortes would go away
Cortes conquers the Aztec nation of 5 million with less than 1000 soldiers

11. Tenochtitlan capitol of Aztec Empire
Montezuma II was the ruler

12. Francisco Pizarro He was born in Trujillo, Spain
Reports of Peru's riches and Cortés's success in Mexico tantalized Pizarro
Pizarro went to New World and founded the first Spanish settlement in Peru, San Miguel de Piura
Inca emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro and executed
Pizarro was assassinated by his own countrymen

14. James Cook
He was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy
Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean
He achieved the 1st European contact with the eastern coast of Australia/Hawaii
The first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand

16. Samuel de Champlain
The Father of New France", a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler
In 1608, he established the French settlement that is now Quebec City in Canada.
He served as Governor of New France

18. John Cabot
John Cabot was a Genoese navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England
John Cabot made a British claim to land in Canada, mistaking it for Asia