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 * ====__ Key Figures in The A __ __ ge of Exploration __ ====

Christopher Columbus:


 * Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who played an important part in Spanish exploration.
 * Columbus believed that he could reach Asia by sailing not east around Africa.
 * Columbus’s expedition was finically supported by Queen Isabella of Spain.
 * He reached the Americas in October 1492, where he explored Cuba’s coastline and claimed it in the name of Spain and named it Hispaniola.
 * Columbus believed he landed in Asia in all four of his voyages but really he discovered all the major islands of the Caribbean and Honduras in Central America.

**Marco Polo:**
 * ===//**He was a** **Venetian explorer and writer.**//===
 * ===//In 1271 he left Venice to go to China to get rich.//===
 * ===//He spent 17 years in the China and sailed back to Venice in 1295.//===
 * ===//He returned to Venice with ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain and silk.//===
 * ===//When he returned he told people about China and there was even a book written about his voyages.//===
 * ===//This information was the first information that Europe got about China.//===
 * ===//He became famous for his trips to China and is considered one of the most important explorers every.//===

Vasco da Gama:




 * Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who went around the cape and cut across the Indian Ocean to the coast of India.
 * He arrived at of the port of Calicut in May 1498, where he got a lot of spices to take back to Portugal.
 * He became rich when he returned to Portugal by selling those spices.
 * His voyage was the first of many voyages along this route.

John Cabot
 * John Cabot was an Italian born English navigator and explorer.
 * In 1497 he sailed to Canada and landed at Labrador, Newfoundland.
 * He claimed this land in the name of England.
 * He tried to find a passage from North America to Asia, but he was not successful.

Amerigo Vespucci: 
 * Was a Florentine merchant and navigator.
 * He went along on several voyages to America.
 * He wrote letters describing what he saw.
 * These letters led to the land being named America.

Francisco Pizarro: 
 * He was a Spanish conquistador.
 * He led an expedition that took control of the Incan Empire high in the Peruvian Andes.

Ferdinand Magellan:
 * He was a Portuguese explorer.
 * In 1519 he sailed with the intention of reaching the Spice Islands by sailing west around South America.
 * He was killed by natives before finishing his voyages.
 * He was the first explorer to sail across the world, even thou he died, he got all the credit.

=Hernan Cortez:=
 * ====**He was a Spanish conquistador and led voyages to South America.**====
 * ===On his voyages to America he came in contact with the Aztecs.===
 * ====**In 3 years he caused the fall of the Aztecs and took over the land for Spain.**====
 * ====**He continued to gain more land for Spain and he killed more Native for it.**====
 * ====**He is one of the main Reasons for The Spanish taking over Mexico and for all that died.**====

= = =King Afonso:=


 * ==He was the greatest King of Congo.==
 * ==When the Portuguese arrived in his kingdom he converted to Catholicism.==
 * ==When he was king he tried to seek friendly relations with the portuguese.==
 * ==He soon realized that the portuguese could not be trusted and they raided Africa and tried to assassinate Him.==

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