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Unit2Assignment6
explorer names
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lief Eriksson | Norwegian explorer, son of Erik the Red, was first European to explore the Americas. |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | King of Portugal who established a school of navigation and financed trips of exploration. |
| Bartolomeu Dias | Led an expedition from Portugal southward along the African coast. A stormblew his ships around the southern tips of Africa. This point became knows as the Cape of Good Hope. Dias wanted to go on with his voyage but his men did not. |
| Vasco de Gama | Went on an expodition around the cape of good hope.left Libson, Portugal in 1497, arrived in southwest India the next year. Portugal won the European race for a sea route to Asia. When DaGama reached the Indian port of Calicut. goverened smallColonyThere |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer, he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. He gained the support of Spain's monarchs and commanded a small fleet that reached the "New World", setting off a tide of European exploration of area. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese captain of a Spanish fleet that sought a western route to Asia via the "Southern Ocean", he found a passage through the South America, now known as the Strait of Magellan, but died during the expedition. |
| Kather Bartolome de Las Casas | A pries, said that the Spanish should try to convert Native Americans to Christianity to convert Native Americans to Christianity by showing them love, gentleness, and kindness. The Spanish monarchs agreed, but the colonists did not always follow the laws |
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