Table of Contents
- 1 What did Amerigo Vespucci accomplish with their expeditions?
- 2 What was the purpose of Christopher Columbus four expeditions?
- 3 What are 4 explorers that sailed for Spain?
- 4 When did Vespucci discover America?
- 5 Who was the Spanish explorer who explored the Northwest Passage?
- 6 What was the name of Amundsen’s ship that crossed the Northwest Passage?
What did Amerigo Vespucci accomplish with their expeditions?
On May 10, 1497, explorer Amerigo Vespucci embarked on his first voyage. On his third and most successful voyage, he discovered present-day Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata. Believing he had discovered a new continent, he called South America the New World. In 1507, America was named after him.
What was the purpose of Christopher Columbus four expeditions?
The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas.Saf. 27, 1443 AH
What two explorers sailed for Spain and what did they accomplish?
Spain sent over conquistadors to explore the Americas and to conquer the peoples there. Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. They made Spain rich with the gold and silver they found in the Americas.
What was the Northwest Passage and who discovered it?
In 1609, the merchants of the Dutch East India Company hired English explorer Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Hudson navigated along the North American coast looking for a more southern, ice-free route across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean.Jum. II 6, 1439 AH
What are 4 explorers that sailed for Spain?
Some of the most famous explorers are Juan Ponce de León, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando Cortés, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, and Hernando de Soto. Each one of these explorers played and important role in the colonizing and exploration of the Americas.Muh. 21, 1440 AH
When did Vespucci discover America?
1501
Vespucci made his discovery while sailing near the tip of South America in 1501. Amerigo Vespucci was one of many European explorers during the Age of Exploration, or Age of Discovery, which took place from the mid-1400s to mid-1500s.Dhuʻl-H. 29, 1438 AH
What was the route of the Northwest Passage?
The Northwest Passage is a famed sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through a group of sparsely populated Canadian islands known as the Arctic Archipelago.
Why was the voyage of Amerigo Vespucci so important?
The voyage of 1501–02 is of fundamental importance in the history of geographic discovery in that Vespucci himself, and scholars as well, became convinced that the newly discovered lands were not part of Asia but a “New World.”
Who was the Spanish explorer who explored the Northwest Passage?
Francisco de Ulloa. The Spanish referred to The Northwest Passage as the “Straight of Anián.”. In 1539, Spanish explorer Francisco de Ulloa, funded by Hernán Cortés, set sail from Acapulco, Mexico, in search of a Pacific route to the Northwest Passage.
What was the name of Amundsen’s ship that crossed the Northwest Passage?
After a three-year expedition, Amundsen and his crew, aboard a small fishing ship called Gjøa, reached Nome on Alaska’s Pacific coast in 1906. The passage wasn’t a commercially viable shipping route due to the sea ice, so only a handful of ships traversed the entire Northwest Passage in the decades following Amundsen’s 1906 crossing.