Sail underneath the tip of Africa to sail to Asia (Unsuccessful because everyone turns back)

• Bartolomeo Diaz

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Sails underneath the tip of Africa and reaches India

• Bartolomeo Diaz

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Italian but sailed for the Spanish

• Bartolomeo Diaz

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Discovered America but though it was India (Made 3 voyages)

• Bartolomeo Diaz

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese but sailed for the Spanish

• Bartolomeo Diaz

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

First to lead the voyage to circumnavigate the world

• Bartolomeo Diaz

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Why is it consider Magellan’s voyage, but not Magellan to circumnavigate the globe

What was Sir Francis Drake navigation purpose? Who helped him with it?

Prince Henry the navigator.......

• -Sets up observatories

  -Navigation schools

  -Pays for a lot of people to sail

• -Portuguese but sailed for the Spanish

  -First to circumnavigate the world

• -Was a pirate

  -First to reach Australia

  -Brought many goods into Spain

• -Tries to find the north west passage to Asia

  -Pirate

First countries to explore

• Spain and Portugal

• England and Netherlands

• England and France

• Belgium and Portugal