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assignment#6
Question | Answer |
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Leif Erikson | sailing from norway around the year 1000 to greenland when a storm blew his ship off course and carried his ship all the way the North American coast. |
Prince Henry the Navigator | He paid for expeditions to explore the west coast of Africa and opened up a school of navigation. |
Vasco de Gama | was sent on an expedition around the cape of good hope. He left Lisbon, Portugal in July 1497 and arrived in southwestern India the next year |
Christopher Columbus | He reached another continent that was unknown to him, now North America. |
Ferdinhand Magellan | In 1519 a Portuguese navigator set out with a spanish fleet to sail down the east coast of South America. His fleet was the first to circumnavigate |
Barthlomeu Dias | explored the west coast of Africa looking for a new route to Asia A storm blew his ships around the tip f Africa's cape of good hope Dias wanted to continue his voyage but his men didn't. Dias cad off the voyage and returned to Portugal |