I do not agree with he brought his son to the trip with he together and make his 12 years-old son Sebastiano in dangerous. Moreover, in 1499, that John Cabot was lost at sea, at that time his children were so young. He wasn’t accountable for his wife and son. His family lost their support, their life became hard. However, in Sebastiano’s eyes, his father always was a hero who found the new world.
His career in exploration started when he was very young. As a teenager he traveled the seas and eventually made Portugal his base. Columbus came to believe that the East Indies (present day Indonesia and surrounding islands) could be reached by sailing west through the Atlantic Ocean. He appealed to the kings of Portugal, France and England to finance a westward trip to the Indies, but all denied his request. After ten years of monumental efforts but fruitless results, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to finance Columbus in the hopes of acquiring great wealth.
[pic] [pic] According to a passage in the log of the first ocean crossing, he first went to sea at the age of eighteen; and in 1472 he referred to himself as a “Genoese wool draper.” Shortly afterward, in 1473, Columbus and his father moved to Savona, from which port Columbus made voyages on behalf of Genoese firms. o BORN IN 1451, Genoa o DIED IN May 20, 1506, Valladolid • Parents: Domenico Colombo, Susanna Fontanarossa • Children: Diego Columbus, Ferdinand Columbus 1. Christopher Columbus (c. 1450-51–May 20, 1506) was born in the Republic of Genoa, Italy 2. Columbus’ mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a wool merchant. He had three
Columbus was borning 1451 in Genoa,Italy. As a child he help his
Magellan sailed down the coast of modern-day Brazil and .Argentina after crossing the Atlantic. “Thence they navigated along the (Argentine) coast, and arrived on the last day of March of the year 1520 at the port of St. Julian.” a journal entry of a crewman states in Document B. Magellan and his crew were in search of a waterway that would lead to the Pacific Ocean. At last, Magellan had found a strait linking the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, months after leaving the Port San Julian (Doc C). Magellan found the passage he was looking for using his navigational skills; this proves he was worth defending. The second reason why Magellan was worth defending was because of his sacrifice.
Cabrillo hoped to find a wealthy city know as Cibola, and somewhere in the Pacific coast, and a connecting route to the Northwest Passage. The expedition sailed out of the port of Navidad, on June 1542 and brought with him a crew of sailors, soldiers, and Indians in three ships. By the end of the month Cabrillo passed Baja Point and entered uncharted waters, where no Spanish ships gone before. On the 28th of September he landed on an island which he named San Salvador, after his flagship. They reached as far north as the Russian River before the autumn storms forced them to turn back to San Salvador on November 23, 1542.
He set sail for the New World in 1500, while he was on an expedition to Colombia. He was going to try and find gold, but someone took the gold before him, so he settled as a farmer in Hispaniola. Balboa soon found himself in debt. To escape, he hid in a large barrel and was carried on board a ship that was sailing to the settlement of San Sebastián, in Colombia. When the ship was safely in the ocean, Balboa came out of hiding.
Millions of natives in the New World died due to European illness making it easier for the Spanish Conquistadors to move in and take over much of the Americas. Balboa in 1513 discovers the Ithsmas of Panama and becomes the first European to set eyes on the Pacific Ocean from the east. The explorations to the new world continued and 1519-1522- Magellan sailed around the world proving that Columbus did not find
He sailed across the North Atlantic and reached the coast America North of Scotia. He along with Columbus thought he found the country of the
Historical Recount of Marco Polo’s Travels Marco Polo(1254-1324) was an Italian merchant who travelled the world famous “Silk Road” and connected the European and Asian civilisations. (timeline) Marco Polo was born in Venice to the son of a rich family, who provided him with a good education, especially in language: Italian and French, literacy skills and arithmetics. In 1271, when Marco was seventeen, he joined his father, Nicolo Polo and uncle, Maffeo Polo on their second trip to the East. This time they changed the route and passed through Armenia, Persia, Afghanistan, the Pamier mountains and finally they reached the Gobi desert. After this long journey of three years, they arrived in China and met Kublai Khan.