Monday- presentations
Magellan
- Cartography, astronomy and celestial navigation
- Sailed for Portugal and Spain
- Faster routes to the Spice Islands across the Atlantic Ocean around South America
- He found
- GO through Magellan's Straight you can reach Spice Islands
- Considered to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe
- He died in a war
- Lost his crew
- Boat wrecks they lost about 100 boats
- He was successful
Henry Hudson
- Studied Navigation
- Find a shorter route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean attempted 3 times
- Went to Harvard
- His crew turned on him
- Hudson Bay
Tuesday- presentations
Fransico Vasque De Cornado
- Explored for Spain
- Found Natives
- didn't find any gold
- starving
- invaded the Natives and took their food supply of what little they have
- Found the Grand Canyon
- Went along the Rio Grande
- Stole a village from Tiguenex natives during winter
- He was not successful because he didn't get anything he was looking for
Wednesday-
Hernan Cortes
- Sailed for Spain
- Sailed to the Americas when he was 19
- Led the Destruction of the Aztec empire and claimed certain parts for the Spanish Empire
Sebastian Cabot
- His dad was John Cabot
- Cartographer
- First Voyage
- went to North America with his dad
- He explored the Rio De La Plata
- 3 ships
- Banned him from England had to go to Africa
- Found
- Parana and Paraguay River
Sir Francis Drake
- Politician
- First navigator to circumnavigate the globe
Thursday- no school
Friday- no school
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