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Phoenicians
They primarily explored the coastal area of the
Mediterranean.
2000 BCVikings
Seafaring was influenced and almost halted with the fall of the Roman Empire. There was a decline in civilization around the coast of the Mediterranean.
476 ADVikings
Built the most superior of ships for their time: 15-30 meters long, made of oak, and powered by sails and oars. When there wasn’t wind, it was powered by men using the oars and it had a flattened bottom, with enable it to sail through shallower seas.
800-1100 ADVikings
Discovered new lands- Greenland, New Foundland, and East Coast of Canada
1000 ADBartholomeu Dias
Sailed around the southern tip of Africa, which was later named the “Cape of Good Hope”
1488Christopher Columbus
Voyage- Spain → India by traveling west. He crossed the Atlantic and landed in the Bahamas.
1492Christopher Columbus
Areas of discovery- modern day Caribbean and Bahamas. On three subsequent voyages, he reached Central and South America.
1493-1498Amerigo Vespucci
He named North America “Mundus Novus”- latin for New World
John Cabot
Sailed from England to Explore the Coast of N America, first claims of Canada for Great Britain
Mapped the Labrador Sea as far North as Newfoundland and as far south as Delaware
1497Amerigo Vespucci
Mapmakers named the New World “America” after him
1507Vasco Nunez Balboa
Traveled across Panama
Named the South Sea “el Mar del Sud” which later became the Pacific Ocean
1513Ferdinand Magellan
1st to circumnavigate - discovered and proved the Earth was round
1519-1522Giovanni de Verrazano
Mapped the coast of Georgia to Massachusetts
1524Jacques Cartier
Mapped the St. Lawrence River
1534-1541Henry Hudson
Mapped the Hudson River
1607-1611
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