explorers
His 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.who is it
John Cabot
what shows a map of stars
astrolabe
what happened in1492
Columbus sails to the New World.
what did Christopher Columbus discover
the Americas
who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
Christopher Columbus
what tells you what direction you are going in
compass
what happened in 1497
John Cabot discovers Newfoundland while he searches for the Northwest Passage.
what did Marco Polo discover
24-year journey along the Silk Road, reaching China and Mongolia, where he became a confidant of Kublai Khan.
who was a Navarrese Roman Catholic missionary,
Francis Xavier
what helped them sail across the oceans
caravel
what happened in 1502
Amerigo Vespucci returns from his explorations of the New World. American continents named after him by German mapmaker
what did john cabot discover
who obtained letters-patent from Henry VII of England in 1496
who was the 1st Count of Vidigueira
Vasco da Gama
what helps you determining the angle between the horizon and a celestial body
sextant
1487
Bartholomew Dias discovers the southern tip of Africa.
what did Francis Xavier discover
Jesuit order
who was the a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household
Bartolomeu Dias
what is widely used for navigation charts,
Mercator projection
what happened in 1492
Columbus sails to the New World
what did Bartolomeu Dias discover
Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to India