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EXPLORERS’ CHART
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Design a chart in which you can give the following information about
explorers: Name, Nationality, Sponsor, Date of Exploration, Goal(s), and Accomplishment(s). Use the following format:
NAME
NATIONALITY
SPONSOR
DATE
Prince Henry
Portuguese
Portugal
1460s
Bartholomeu Dias
Portuguese
Portugal
14871488
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese
Portugal
14971499
Portuguese
Portugal
1500
Sailed to reach
India
1492
Western route for
Spain to Asia
Pedro Alvares Cabral
GOAL(S)
ACCOMPLISHMENT(S)
Explore coast of
Africa for gold, a
Christian kingdom
and route to Asia
To explore coast of
Africa; reach Asia
by sea
To sail around
Africa to Asia
Established school to train
navigators, etc. led to
accomplishment of goal
1493
Christopher Columbus
Italian
Spain
1498
1502
Amerigo Vespucci
Juan Ponce de Leon
Italian
Spanish
Portugal
Spain
Spain
14991500
1501
To find an all
water route to Asia
1508
1513
To explore new
lands
To search for gold
& Fountain of
Youth
To explore &
colonize Fla.
To find a rich
country near a
great sea
15191521
15191522
To explore Mexico
and look for gold
To reach Asia by
sailing west
1513
1521
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Spanish
Spain
Hernando Cortes
Spanish
Spain
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese
Spain
Reached tip of Africa – Cape
of Good Hope
Reached goal; made Portugal
center of trade goods from
Asia
Reached Brazil; claimed it
for Portugal because of
Treaty of Tordesilla
Reached America; established colony on Haiti
Found colony on Haiti destroyed; started 1st permanent European colony –
Dominican Republic; explored/claimed Gaudeloupe, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
Reached Trinidad & mainland of S. A. (Venezuela)
Reached Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
Explored E. coast of S. Am.;
1st to describe Am. as “new
world”; realized Columbus
had not reached the Indies
Explored & conquered
Puerto Rico; discovered gold
Explored E. & W. coasts of
Fla.
Wounded and died
Claimed the Pacific Ocean
for Spain (South Sea);
proved that Columbus had
not reached Asia
Conquered the Aztec Empire
Magellan died in Philippines; one ship finished
journey – 1st to sail around
the world; true size of world
known as a result of voyage