The ship went down along with some of his men, but the crew who live help Columbus reach land. Lands to the west. Christopher Columbus always wanted to sail beyond what anyone ever did before. He wanted to know if there was any more land than he had lived on. He studied books written by Marco Polo on how to sail
After his father died, Leon was brought in by his uncles, where he wrote his first book, “On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Letters.” He loved to write about classics, things dealing with love, virtues and failed relationships. In 1447 Leon became the papal inspector of monuments and also advised Pope Nicholas V on the new building projects in Rome. He completed many books and buildings before his death on April 25,1472 in Rome. His architecture was and never will be forgotten by the Italian people. Leon Battista Alberti was better known for his architecture than his writings.
(p. 1 European Exploration) In October 1492, Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic). Columbus believed that he was in the outer islands of the Far East, and he made three more voyages in search of a path to Asia. During the last three voyages, Columbus reached the major islands of the Caribbean, which he named the West Indies. It was not until 1507, a year after Columbus's death, that cartographer Amerigo Vespucci suggested that Columbus had landed on an entirely new land that was far from Asia. (p. 2 European Exploration) Although Spain's new claims created the Spanish Empire, the extent of its lands was still unknown.
In 1501, he failed his law studies and wound up leaving the University of Salamanca. The following year, he joined Diego Velazquez and Nicola de Ovando on their voyages to the New World. He is best known as a Spanish conquistador and explorer. He conquered
In 1620, the would-be settlers joined a London stock company that would finance their trip aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship, in 1620. A smaller vessel, the Speedwell, had initially accompanied the Mayflower and carried some of the travelers, but it proved unseaworthy and was forced to return to port by September.ome of the most notable passengers on the Mayflower included Myles Standish, a professional soldier who would become the military leader of the new colony; and William Bradford, a leader of the Separatist congregation who wrote the still-classic account of the Mayflower voyage and the founding of
Little is known about his childhood and his education but he joined the Spanish army when he was about 23. During the Battle of Lepanto, Miguel was injured for life. As he was traveling home after his service in the army in 1575, he was captured by Barbary pirates and enslaved with fellow Christians in the Algiers. His attempted escapes failed and it was not until 1580 that his mother was able to pay his ransom. Miguel got married to Catalina de Palacios and began writing plays and poetry in 1584.
In Spain 1942, Christopher Columbus set out on a voyage to India, his hopes were to find a shorter route and to trade with the peoples there. Due to some mathematical and navigational errors he sailed west instead and landed in San Salvador 33 days later thinking it was the West Indies. Columbus was the first European to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas hence opening the doorway to centuries of global exploration and colonization. A few years later in 1947 a Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama set route to India. Da Gama sailed south of Portugal into the Atlantic around Africa and eventually reaching India thirty-seven hundred kilometers later.
Soon after was the foremost member in a group that called itself the “Nice Worthies of Cockloft Hall”. In 1807-1808 he helped his brother write essays for his magazine. (Ebsco Host). Now well into starting his writing career he started writing stories under the fake name of Diedrich Knickerbocker. Writing under the fake name Irving published one of his most famous
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, well known for his first voyage when he discovered a trade route to India through Africa, which caused several impacts on the world in that period. As Vasco Da Gama’s father was an explorer, he was already oriented on navigation during his early life: becoming an explorer was his destiny. The Portuguese explorer was born in 1460 in Sines, Portugal. He naturally followed in his father's footsteps: he learnt Math and Navigation. Moreover he studied under the astronomer Abraham Zacuto.
In the assignment, I research bout Vasco de Gama who is known as a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. According to BBC History, he was born in 1460 or 1469 in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal, in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas. Portugal sponsored him because by the middle of the 15th century, they were the leading maritime nation in Europe, thanks largely to the legacy of Prince Henry the Navigator, who had brought together a talented group of mapmakers, geographers, astronomers and navigators at his school of seamanship at Sagres, in southern Portugal. The Henry's original intention had been to find a sea route to India that would give Portugal access to the lucrative trade in spices from the Far East. According to Modern History Sourcebook published by University of New York, even though he was compelled to return with the bare discovery and the few spices he had bought there at inflated prices, he still made a 3000% profit by the trade.