explorers and conquerors

1. Vasco de gama

1.1. Portuguese explorer

1.2. discovered an ocean route

1.2.1. Portugal to east

1.3. sailed from portugal to east

1.3.1. July 8,1947

1.4. treated as hero

1.4.1. rewarded as king

1.5. reached India on May 20, 1498

2. Hernan Cortes

2.1. Spanish adventurer and conquistador

2.2. overthrew the Aztec empire

2.3. claimed Mexico for Spain

2.4. Sailed with 11 ships from cuba to Yucatan Peninsula

2.4.1. looked for gold silver and treasuers

2.5. "discovered" Tenochtitlan

2.5.1. capital of the Aztec empire

3. Jacques Cartier

3.1. french explorer

3.2. lead three expeditions to Canada

3.2.1. 1534,1535,1541

3.3. tried to start a settlement in quebec

3.3.1. 1541

3.4. was the one who named Canada

4. christopher Columbus

4.1. four trips across the Atlantic ocean

4.1.1. 1492,1493,1498,1502

4.2. discovered America in 1492

4.3. Italian explorer

4.4. blamed for the destruction of native Americans

4.5. credited for opening up Americas to

4.5.1. European Colonization

5. lucas vazquez de Ayllon

5.1. spanish conquistador

5.2. tried to start a colony in 1526.

5.3. first European colonizer of what now is

5.3.1. South Carolina

5.4. attempt to settle the coast of Carolina

5.4.1. unsuccesful

6. Sebastian Cabot

6.1. explorer, mapmaker and navigator

6.2. Italian descent

6.3. mapmaker for England's King Henry VIII

6.4. searched for northwest passage across North America

6.4.1. 1508

6.5. unsuccessful trip around the world

6.5.1. (1526-1529)