Eminent_Explorers.ppt
- 1. Eminent Explorers Amerigo Vespuccii Christopher Columbus Amerigo Vespucci Christopher Columbus
- 2. Christopher Columbus The Italian Explorer, who was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Born: 1492 at Genoa, Italy Died: 1506 at Valladolid, Spain A master navigator and whose four transatlantic voyages (1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04) Amerigo Vespucci An Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived. He became a Castilian citizen in 1505. Born: 1454,Florence, Italy Died: 1512, Sevilla, Spain Merchant and explorer-navigator who took part in early voyages to the New World (1499–1500 and 1501– 02.) On May10 1497, explorer Amerigo Vespucci embarked on his first voyage.
- 3. Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus made four voyages to America. On 3rd August 1492, Columbus and his crew set sail in three ships – The Nina, The Pinta and The Santa Maria. He started the voyage for his patrons, the king and queen of Spain. On 12th October, the ships made landfall on a Bahamian island, San Salvador. He spent months sailing from island to island in search of precious materials. He had set up a Hispaniola settlement. In January 1943, he left for Spain. Amerigo Vespucci On the 1499 voyage,Vespucci sailed to the Northern part of South America and into the Amazon River. He gave places he saw names like the “Gulf of Ganges”,thinking,as his explorer contemporaries did,that he was in Asia. He also made improvements to celestial navigation techniques. How They Explored
- 4. Contribution to the world Christopher Columbus • Christopher Columbus was a brilliant Italian explorer, navigator and colonist who played a key role in shaping the history of the world as it was his voyages that initiated widespread contact between the Old World, i.e. Africa, Asia and Europe; and the New World, i.e. the Americas. • He discovered a viable Sailing route to the Americas. Columbus was responsible for the Columbian Exchange, an event that changed the history of mankind. Columbian Exchange is a term coined by Alfred W. Crosby in his revolutionary book The Columbian Exchange which was published in 1972. The term refers to the widespread exchange of animals, plants, human technology and ideas that occurred between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas after Christopher Columbus landed in the New World.. Amerigo Vespucci On the third and most successful voyage of Amerigo Vespucci, he is said to have discovered a new continent called South America which consists of the present day-Rio de Janeiro & Rio de la Plate. In 1507, America was named after him. According to a controversial letter, it indicates that the ship sailed through West Indies and
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