# data[].attributes.body
1.Infante D. Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known as Prince Henry the Navigator, was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
2.often called Henry the Navigator by historians, is often credited with initiating the Age of Exploration
3. sponsoring exploration voyages along the coast of Africa using the new caravel ships.

# data[].attributes.body
1.Jacques Cartier was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France
2.was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence
3.was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534.

# data[].attributes.body
1.Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States.
2.two unsuccessful sailing voyages in search of an ice-free passage to Asia
3.On April 22, 1608, the Muscovy Company again sent Hudson to seek a Northeast Passage

# data[].attributes.body
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
2.the first European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
3.After setting sail in May 1498 for a return voyage to North America, Cabot's final days remain a mystery.

# data[].attributes.body
1.Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain.
2.He first set sail to the New World at the age of 19
3. Cortés later joined an expedition to Cuba. In 1518, he set off to explore Mexico.

# data[].attributes.body
1.Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.
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.helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus of Panama

# data[].attributes.body
1.Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
2.Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe; considered the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean.
3. Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480 in Sabrosa, Portugal to Rui de Magalhaes and Alda de Mesquita.

# data[].attributes.body
1. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
2.  thousands of sailors lost their lives in attacks and shipwrecks while trying to reach India for years before Vasco da Gama made the successful voyage.
3. Vasco da Gama contracted malaria on the third trip and died soon after arriving in India.

# data[].attributes.body
1.the first European explorer to sail around the southern tip of Africa discovering what is called the Cape of Good Hope
2.He is usually considered to be the greatest of the Portuguese pioneers who explored the Atlantic during the 15th century.
3.Dias was a Knight in the royal court and a sailing master of the man-of-war, Saint Christopher.

# data[].attributes.body
1. Zheng He was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty.
2. He commanded seven naval expeditions almost a century before the Portuguese reached India by sailing around the Southern tip of Africa
3. In 1404, Zheng He was promoted to Grand Eunuch. The Yongle Emperor appointed He commander of a large treasure fleet and over twenty thousand men. Zheng He, at thirty-five years old, had the highest rank of any eunuch in the history of China.

# data[].attributes.body
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. Shortcut to China. Three Ships and a long voyages, finding land, returning home, more voyages
3. 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India.

# data[].attributes.body
1.Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era
2. Drake ordered a surgeon to open up his brother’s body after he died of an unknown disease
3.was one of the first British slave traders