(People) Chapter 2: Age of Exploration
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Prince Henry the Navigator
A Portuguese Prince that wanted to improve sea travel and find new routes to Asia by opening a school to teach navigation and map making.
Leif Ericson
The Viking explorer believed to be the first European to reach the New World (North America) and founded a settlement in present-day Canada that was abandoned.
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer who was the first European to get around the Cape of Good Hope (at the tip of Africa)
Vasco da Gama
A Portuguese explorer who followed Dias route around the tip of Africa and sailed to India
Christopher Columbus
He wanted to find a water route to Asia by going west across the Atlantic Ocean
Hernan Cortes
Spanish conquistador who traveled to present-day Mexico, where he conquered the Aztecs
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world