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Explorers

Explores in World History H

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Vasco de Gama first to sail around Africa to India and back (Portuguese)
Bartolomeu Dias first to reach the southern tip of Africa (Portuguese)
Ferdinand Magellan led expedition to circumnavigate the globe, died on the way (Spain)
Christopher Columbus landed in Hispaniola in 1492 thinking he was in India, natives=Indians, islands=Indies, opened door for colonization in New World (Spain)
Amerigo Vespucci explored east coast of South Amercia, identified territory as New World, not Asia (Spain)
Cortes defeated the Aztec Empire in Mexico in 1519 (Spain)
Pizzzaro defeated the Incan Empire in 1533 (Spain)
Marco Polo Went to China but no one believed his stories
Ibn Batutta Muslim explorer who went to China, everyone believed his book
Zheng He Chinese explorer who sailed the Indian Ocean to Africa
Vasco Nunez de Balboa first European to cross the Isthmus of the Panama and reach the Pacific Ocean in 1513 (Spain)
Hernando de Soto explored areas from FL to SC, across GA and west to MS, helped Pizzaro (Spain)
Portugal first to buy slaves along Slave Coast, sugar plantations were a cash crop, converted natives to Catholic faith
Spanish Empire Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, used natives for labor, took natural resources, converted natives to Catholic faith, became one of the richest nations, plantation, agriculture, navy to protect trade
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