Age of Exploration. Flashcards
Christopher Columbuas
He sailed from Spain in the year 1492. He searched for India.
Vasco de Balboa
He sailed from Spain in the year 1513.He searched for gold.
Leif Erickson
He sailed from Iceland in the year A.D. 1000.He searched for the native people of Greenland toChristianity.
John Cabot
He sailed from England in the year 1497.He looked for a route to Asia by sailing Westward.
Juan Ponce De Leon
He sailed from Spain in the year 1513.He searched for land gold and power.
Henry Hudson
He sailed from the Netherlands in the year 1607.He looked for a passage by the North Pole to Japan.
Ferdinand Magellan
He sailed from Spain in the year 1519.He looked for spices and passages that connected to the ocean.
Amerigo Vespucci
He sailed from Portugal in the year 1492.He searched for a sea rout to Indians China.
Vasco Da Gama
He sailed from Portugal in the year 1497.He looked for a sea rout to India to a sea access to valuable spice trade.
Bartolomeu Dais
He sailed from Portugal in the year 1487.He searched or pester John.
Francico Pizzaro
He sailed from Spain in the year 1509.He searched fortune of youth.
Jacques Cartier
He sailed from France in the year 1534.He looked for gold and other riches.
Las Casas
He sailed from Spain in the year 1540.He looked for atrocities of the new Spain and Peru.
Giovanni Da Verrazano
He sailed from France in the year 1523.He looked for a derelict rout to the sea in the panic ocean.
