Age of Exploration
1419
2-20
1421-1460 2-20
Madeira is discovered
1427
2-20
2-20
Columbus discovers New
World
1494
Bartholemew Dias sails
around Cape of Good
Hope, Africa
1497
2-20
2-20
2-20
Amerigo Vespucci finds
South America
1498
2-20
Treaty of Tordesillas
divides the world in half
Vasco De Gama sails
around Africa to India
John Cabot reaches
Newfoundland
1499
2-20
Azores are discovered
Prince Henry sets up a
navigation school in
Portugal
1492
1488
1500
1511
2-20
Pedro Cabral discovers
Brazil and claims it for
Portugal
Alfonso Albuquerque
conquers Malacca for
Portugal
3-1
1513
3-1
Portuguese reach China,
the first European ships to
do so
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1519-1522 3-1
1524
1535
3-1
3-1
Varrazzano sails for
France and explores the
North American coastline
3-1
Jacques Cartier sails up
the St. Lawrence river,
claiming it for France
1577-1580 3-1
1580
3-1
Russians begin conquest
of Siberia
Frobisher reaches
northern Canada
1596
3-1
Portuguese discover Japan
Magellan's
Circumnavigation of the
World
1576
1543
1595
3-1
Dutch trading vessels sign
a trade treaty with
Indonesia
Drake sails around the
world
3-1
1607-1611 3-1
Barents sails north looking
for a passage east over
Scandinavia
Henry Hudson searches
for the northwest passage
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