Europeans Explore the East and Explorers

Samuel de Champlain

"The Father of New France", was a French explorer. He founded New France and Quebec City on North America on July 3, 1608. Discovered and charted the Ottawa River, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, and founded Quebec; the first French colony in Canada.

Hernando de Soto

A Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi River.

spain and the portugal sign the treaty of tordesillas what was the most important result of this agreement?

By agreeing to honor the line of demarcation that divided Portuguese and Spanish land claims

Hongwu

Chinese, he commanded the rebel army that drove the mongols out of china

Zheng He

Chinese, he was the first emperor of the ming dynasty he traveled nearly 35,000 miles to thirty different nations before he retired. Zheng He commanded several treasure fleets - Chinese ships that explored and traded across Asia and Africa. His expeditions greatly expanded China's trade.

Christopher Columbus

Convinced the monarchy of SPAIN to allow him to search for the East Indies by sailing west. What he finds instead is the islands of the Caribbean. He then established the permanent settlement of HISPANIOLA.

Prince Henry

European, he started a navigation school and technological advances included magnetic compass, tougher boats, etc. Henry the Navigator was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1394. Although he was neither a sailor nor a navigator, he sponsored a great deal of exploration along the west coast of Africa. Under his patronage, Portuguese crews founded the country's first colonies and visited regions previously unknown to Europeans. Henry is regarded as an originator of the Age of Discovery and the Atlantic slave trade.

Sir Francis Drake

He effectively ended Spanish dominance over the seas and the New World, allowing England to become a global empire.

John Smith

He played an important part in the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Vasco de Gama

He was commissioned by the Portuguese king to find a maritime route to the East. His success in sailing around the tip of AFRICA proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation.

Hernando Cortez

Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain.

Henry Hudson

Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northwest Passage to Cathay (today's China) via a route above the Arctic Circle.

Amerigo Vespucci

Vespucci realized the land he was exploring was a separate continent and not part of Asia, as he and many others believed at the time. The continents of North and South America are named after him.

The Dutch establish a trading center on java how did the Dutch gain control of much of the Indian ocean trade?

allied with England to break Portuguese controls of trade and then drove English out of region

France sets ups up its own East India company How did the European battles for Indian Ocean trade affect the people of Asia before the nineteenth century?

he Europeans began to conquer the region, the people of Asia remained relatively unaffected by Europeans contact

(prince Henry starts a navigation school-1419) what technical advances made possible for the age of exploration?

magnetic compass, and Tougher boats

Christopher Columbus reaches the caribbean what were some immediate and some long term out comes of columbus's voyage?

maps were created, and tension increased between Spain and Portugal.

Vasco Da Gama reaches the port of calicut on the Indian ocean how did portugal benefit from this voyage

new route to Asia

Spain begins settlements in the philippines why did spain set up training posts in asia

to stop Portuguese domination of Asian trade

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese, completed the unification of Japan and his victory earned him loyalty

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain to discover a western sea route to The East Indies. He discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean.

Bartolomeu dias

Portuguese navigator who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope, thus paving the way to the final expedition of Vasco da Gama.