W.H. Age of Exploration

Italian explorer who may have developed the idea of sailing westward to reach the riches of Asia

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Giovanni da Verrazano

• Abel Tasman

Portuguese explorer who discovered the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco Da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Sir Francis Drake

Greatest Dutch explorer and first European to sight Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Fiji Islands

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Giovanni da Verrazano

• Abel Tasman

Italian explorer who stumbled upon the Americas

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco Da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Sir Francis Drake

first European to reach India by sea

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco Da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Sir Francis Drake

sailed around the southern most tip of Africa in 1488 and was the first European to do this

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco Da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Sir Francis Drake

an English explorer who was the second person to circumnavigate the globe

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco Da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Sir Francis Drake

Italian explorer who charted the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolina's and Newfoundland - including New York Harbor

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Giovanni da Verrazano

• Abel Tasman

He enable France to lay claim to the lands that would become Canada

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Giovanni da Verrazano

• Abel Tasman

Bartolomeu Dias

• England

• Portugal

• Netherlands

• Spain

• France