1. Tuesday
“The power of time is clear. It can be measured, be studied, or even plotted on a map, and yet, it is the mortal man who seeks to outlive it.”
Vocab Due Thursday
Test Next Monday
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2. Zheng He Chinese Admiral 1405-25
Traveled on Emissary missions across the Indian ocean
Giant treasure ships giving away riches of China
Chinese exploration stopped due to Great Wall

3. Christopher Columbus 1492-1504 Spain “discovered” new continent
Failed attempt to travel to India

4. Vasco de Gama
1497
Portugal
First to travel to India by going around Africa

6. Ferdinand Magellan 1519 Spain
Sailed around South America and across the Pacific.
His ships were the first to circumnavigate the world

7. Hernando Cortes
1519
Spain
Spanish Explorer/Conquistador who landed in Mexico.
Conquered the Aztecs and all of their wealth in 1521

8. Francisco Pizarro 1532 Spain
Conquered the Incan Empire and all of its wealth for Spain

9. Samuel de Champlain
1603
France
Settled Canada

10. James Cook
British
He led the first expedition of sailors known to cross the Antarctic Circle and disproved the existence of the legendary “Southern Continent”
Australia