(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.
Rahul Patel Instructor: Raymond Maxey History 1301-057 19 February 2013 Narrative of the 1584 Voyage (Document 1) Arthur Barlowe was an English explorer and sea captain who helped to lead a reconnaissance expedition to Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina, preparing for a larger English settlement the following year. Little is known about Barlowe's life other than that by early in the 1580s he was a gentleman-soldier attached to Walter Raleigh's household in London. In 1584, Barlowe and Philip Amadas captained two ships that landed at Roanoke Island in what would become the Virginia Colony. The explorers remained in the region for two months, and upon his return Barlowe produced a report, "The first voyage made to the coastes of America," that appeared in Richard Hakluyt the Younger's Principall Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation, published in 1589. An entertaining narrative, Barlowe's report appears to have been based on a ship's log of the voyage, and the final text may have been reworked by others, including Thomas Hariot, Raleigh's primary assistant, and Raleigh himself.
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.
Question 1 Who the Explorer was (his background as a seafarer) and when and where he was born? Christopher Columbus was a famous Italian Seafarer, Navigator and Sailor who was born on Tuesday the 31st of October, 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, Italy to Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa. He is famous for journeying across the Atlantic to the Americas. His voyages led to the Spanish colonization/rule over South American powers. All together over the years 1492-1504 he made a total of four voyages across the Atlantic to the Caribbean.
Christopher Columbus and Marc Polo are both European explorers. They’re both from the Renaissance Time Period. My paper will include they’re young adult, voyages, achievements and more. Next, I will be talking about Christopher Columbus’s early life. He was born in Genoa, Italy.
Six Degree of Seperation: Event 1: Columbus discoverys the New World - 1492 Italian explorer Christopher Columbus convinced the Spanish monarchs to sponsor his voyage with three ships: the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Santa Clara. After six weeks of his first voyage, Columbus and his fellow seafarers stumbled upon the New World. Columbus's discovery would later lead to the Europeans colonizing on this new unknown land. Event 2: The Tready of Tordesillas - 1494 One of the first Europeans to take advantage of Columbus's discovery was the Spaniards. Since the New World offered raw materials such as gold and silver, the Spaniards were eager to start colonizing and conquering the New World.
Pilgrims @ Plymouth Some 100 people, many of them seeking religious freedom in the New World, set sail from England on the Mayflower in September 1620. That November, the ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts. A scouting party was sent out, and in late December the group landed at Plymouth Harbor, where they would form the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England. These original settlers of Plymouth Colony are known as the Pilgrim Fathers, or simply as the Pilgrims. The Mayflower Voyage The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church.
In 1604 he developed an interest in New World colonization. In 1606 he started his expedition to the new world. With three ships he sailed to Virginia and landed in Jamestown. During this time he explored the area and sent details of his findings back to England. The first couple of months in Jamestown were difficult.
For starters, Marco Polo(1254 – 1324) was a italian merchant traveler from Venice. Whose travel to Asia lasted him 24yrs. In which he traveled farther then anyother predecessors, beyond Mongolia to China. On this long lasting journey he became a confidant of Kublai Khan,
Prince Henry, or Henry the navigator, led the way for this early navigation and exploration by setting up schools and understanding about the world. Prince Henry and other trained men of Portugal got on a ship and went across the Cape of Good Hope, a waterway south of Africa. They established trading posts in Africa to help keep up with Europe’s growing population of people. This trading post was the first of many ocean trade routes to Asia and other places. Another Portuguese explorer was Da Gama.