Padlet Project #2 by Abygail Smeder https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa Made with magic en-us 2018-09-20 18:32:27 UTC 2026-02-06 22:59:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Bartolomeu Dias 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284092723 1. the first European explorer to sail around the southern tip of Africa
2. discovered what is now called the Cape of Good Hope
3. King John II appointed Dias as the head of an expedition to find a trade route to India]]> 2018-09-20 18:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284092723 Zheng He 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284092923 1. he was the chief aide of the Yongle Emperor of China in early Ming Dynasty
2. originally named Ma He, Zheng He was born into a Muslim family around 1371
3. when he was 10 he was castrated and sent  to serve in the household of the twenty one year old Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan]]> 2018-09-20 18:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284092923 Vasco da Gamma 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284093015 1. he was commissioned by the Portuguese king to find a maritime route to the East
2. he and his crew made it around the Cape of Good Hope
3.  he returned to Lisbon from India with a small cargo of spices]]> 2018-09-20 18:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284093015 Ferdinand Magellan 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284093305 1. led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world.
2. discovered a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean that is today called the Straits of Magellan
3. As a boy, he studied mapmaking and navigation. By his mid-20s, he was sailing in large fleets and was engaged in combat.]]> 2018-09-20 18:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284093305 Fransisco Pizarro 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284093777 1. Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.
2. He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa, and claimed the lands for Spain
3. On November 10, 1509, Pizarro sailed from Spain to the New World with Alonso de Ojeda on an expedition to Uraba]]> 2018-09-20 18:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284093777 Christopher Columbus 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284094066 1. In 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
2. Christopher Columbus began a career as a seafarer at the age of fourteen and later supported himself by selling maps and charts.
3. Queen Isabella was hesitant to fund Columbus’s voyage.  It took her six years to agree. Christopher Columbus, having given up, was four miles out of town when the Queen’s courier caught up with him and shared the news.
]]> 2018-09-20 18:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284094066 Vasco Nunez de Balboa 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284095218 1. In 1500 AD, he took part in a voyage that explored the coast of what is today Colombia
2. Balboa would eventually become governor of Veragua
3. On September 1st of 1513 Balboa, along with nearly 200 soldiers and several guides, began his journey across the Isthmus of Panama in search of the rumored "other sea".]]> 2018-09-20 18:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284095218 Hernando Cortes 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284095644 1. a Spanish conquistador and explorer who defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain
2. he helped colonize Cuba and became a governor of New Spain.
3. 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. Cortés ignored the order and traveled with about 500 men and 11 ships to Mexico.]]> 2018-09-20 18:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284095644 Sir Francis Drake 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284095794 1. admiral Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe from 1577-1580
2. he helped defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588
3. sir Francis Drake was an English explorer involved in piracy and illicit slave trading who became the second person ever to circumnavigate the globe.]]> 2018-09-20 18:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284095794 John Cabot 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284095937 1.  a Venetian explorer and navigator known for his 1497 voyage to North America
2. While he was there he claimed land from what is now Canada for England
3. he discovered the mainland of North America]]> 2018-09-20 18:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284095937 Henry Hudson 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284096225 1. He was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century
2. In 1607 and 1608, Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a rumored Northeast Passage to China via a route above the Arctic Circle.
3. n 1609 he landed in North America and explored the region around the modern New York metropolitan area, looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia]]> 2018-09-20 18:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284096225 Jaques Cartier 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284096325 1. Jacques Cartier was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France.
2. He was responsible for mapping the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Saint Lawrence River
3.Jacques Cartier explored what became known as Newfoundland, the Magdalen Islands, Prince Edward Island and the Gaspé Peninsula.]]> 2018-09-20 18:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284096325 European 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517698 2018-09-21 18:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517698 Spainard 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517755 2018-09-21 18:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517755 French 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517777 2018-09-21 18:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517777 Asian 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517851 2018-09-21 18:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517851 Italian 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517928 2018-09-21 18:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284517928 Portugal 21smeaby https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284523048 2018-09-21 18:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/21smeaby/v8ihcxm2mopa/wish/284523048