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1.) Cabral's patron was King Manuel I of Portugal, who sent him on an expedition to India.
2.) Portuguese navigator who discovered Brazil on a voyage to India
3.) Amid colorful pageantry 13 ships with 1,200 men sailed from the Tagus River on March 8, 1500, en route to India

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1.) He sought new lands and sources of revenue for his kingdom and dynasty and searched for eastern Christian allies against Islam
2.)  A son of John I, he sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery to the Atlantic coast of Africa, which later led to the discovery of the route to India via the Cape of Good Hope
3.) Although he was neither a sailor nor a navigator, he sponsored a great deal of exploration along the west coast of Africa

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1.) In 1534, France's King Francis I authorized the navigator Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) to lead a voyage to the New World in order to seek gold and other riches, as well as a new route to Asia
2.) Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534
3.) Cartier's three expeditions along the St. Lawrence River would later enable France to lay claim to the lands that would become Canada.

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1.) Henry Hudson's first and second voyages were sponsored by the English Muscovy Company. They took care of all the finance, but later dropped him because he did not succeed
2.) English explorer Henry Hudson made two unsuccessful sailing voyages in search of an ice-free passage to Asia
3.) In 1609, he embarked on a third voyage funded by the Dutch East India Company that took him to the New World and the river that would be given his name

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1.) John Cabot was a Venetian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England was the first European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century
2.) John Cabot and a fleet of five ships left Bristol in May 1498. One of the ships was forced to land in Ireland having been caught in a storm, however the others carried on.
3.)  By the late 1490s, he was living in England, and gained a commission from King Henry VII to make an expedition across the northern Atlantic

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1.) Queen Elizabeth of England sponsored the voyage of Sir Francis Drake and provided many things for him
2.) Drake and his fleet of five ships left England on November 15, 1577. He captained the largest ship, the Pelican, which he would later rename the Golden Hind.
3.) He assembled a huge fleet of Spanish warships called the Spanish Armada and sent them to crush the British and take over England

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1.)  Cortés first served as a soldier in an expedition of Cuba led by Diego Velázquez in 1511. In 1519 Cortés was to command his own expedition to Mexico, but Velázquez cancelled it
2.) Cortes and his men landed at the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico in April of 1519. He had 11 ships, around 500 men, some horses, and some cannon
3.) Cortes arrived at Tenochtitlan on November 8, 1519 he was welcomed by the Aztec Emperor Montezuma II. Although Montezuma did not trust Cortes, he thought that Cortes might be the god Quetzalcoatl in human form

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1.)  The voyage was organized in 1510 by Martín Fernández de Enciso (1470?-1528) to bring aid and reinforcements to a colony off the coast of Uraba (present-day Colombia).
2.) He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World
3.)  The Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean

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1.) Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain
2.)  Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed to finance his journey
3.) Although best known for his historic 1492 expedition, Columbus returned to the Americas three more times in the following decade

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1.) Desirous of making his own discoveries and his own fortune, Pizarro formed a partnership with Diego de Almagro.
2.) Pizarro had heard rumors of a land in South America that was full of gold and other treasures. He wanted to explore the land. He made two initial expeditions into the land
3.)  In 1532, Pizarro and his brothers conquered Peru. Three years later, Pizarro founded the nation's new capital, Lima

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1.)  Charles I, the grandson of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who had funded Christopher Columbus's voyage to America, readily agreed to support this proposal.
2.) Magellan originally launched his expedition as a means of finding a western route to the Moluccas, a small archipelago in Indonesia known for its stores of precious spices like cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg
3.) One of the most important members of Magellan’s voyage was his personal slave Enrique, who had been with the captain since an earlier voyage to Malacca in 1511

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1.)  Explorer Vasco da Gama was born in Sines, Portugal, around 1460. In 1497, he was commissioned by the Portuguese king to find a maritime route to the East.
2.) Da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India was significant and opened the way for an age of global imperialism and for the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia.
3.) Vasco da Gama was given a fleet of ships by the king and told to find a trade route around Africa to India.

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1.)  The Ming Voyages. Asia for Educators. Columbia University. From 1405 until 1433, the Chinese imperial eunuch Zheng He led seven ocean expeditions for the Ming emperor that are unmatched in world history.
2.) Zheng He commanded a large fleet of ships. His first voyage is estimated to have had over 200 total ships and nearly 28,000 men.
3.) He went on seven major expeditions to explore the world for the Chinese emperor and to establish Chinese trade in new areas.

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1.)  King João II of Portugal financed Dias's expedition. Dias took part in Cabral's expedition that discovered Brazil, but Dias's ship sank during a storm.
2.) Portuguese navigator and explorer who led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope (1488), opening the sea route to Asia
3.) Bartolomeu Dias was a member of the royal Portuguese court when he was chosen to head the expedition to find the trade route to India.