SOTW Ch. 31

SOTW Ch. 31

Christopher Columbus

• From Italy

• Wanted to to find a route to India without having to sail the coast of Africa

• King of Portugal

• Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

• Landed off the coast of Florida

Amerigo Vespucci

• Italian

• Seven years after Columbus

• Next 10 years he made several journeys he finally realized they weren't in India

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Ferdinand Magellan

• Portuguese

• Magellan knew that Vasco da Gama who had managed to sail around Africa and get to India by going east had taken a whole year on his voyage.

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• Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy, around 1254. 

• At the age of 17, Marco Polo traveled to Asia with his father and uncle Maffeo. They crossed 15,000 miles, traversing Persia, China, Japan and India.

• Centuries after his death, explorers such as Henry the Navigator and Christopher Columbus were inspired by Marco Polo’s accounts. Columbus set sail to find new routes to the Orient.