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assignment #6
Histry6explorer
Question | Answer |
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(c. 1000) Norwegian explorer, son of Erik the red, was first European to explorer the Americas. | Leif Erikson |
(1394-1460) King of Portugal who established a school of navigation and finaced trips of exploration. | Prince Henry the Navigator |
He led an expodition from portugal to southward along the afircan coast. | Bartolomeu Dias |
King Manuel of portugal sent another explorer on a expodition around the cape of good hope. | Vasco de Gama |
(1451-1506) Italian explorer, he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean.He gained the support of Spain's monarchs and commanded a small fleet that reached the so called New World | Christopher Columbus |
(1480-1521) Portugese captin of a spanish fleet that sought a western route to Asia via the "southern Ocean" he found a passage through south america ,now as the strait of magellan, but died during the expedition His crew of 18 people with one remeaning. | Ferdinand Magellan |