16th-Century Explorers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 122. Chapters: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Willem Barentsz, Francis Drake, Juan Ponce de León, Piri Reis, Thomas Cavendish, Gaspar Corte-Real, Francisco Álvares, Diego de Nicuesa, Cornelis de Houtman, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Tristăo da Cunha, Juan de Ońate, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Vasco Núńez de Balboa, Fernăo Mendes Pinto, Fernăo Pires de Andrade, Christopher Newport, Sebald de Weert, Robert Dudley, Pęro de Ataíde, Vicente Sodré, Joăo da Nova, Álvaro de Mendańa de Neira, Francisco de Almeida, Fernăo de Noronha, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Diogo Fernandes Pereira, Jusepe Gutierrez, António de Saldanha, Francisco Barreto, Alonso de Ojeda, Rafael Perestrello, Ruy López de Villalobos, Antonio de Espejo, Chamuscado and Rodriguez Expedition, Tomé Pires, Diego Caballero, Sancho de Tovar, Cristóvăo de Mendonça, Duarte Barbosa, Pedro de Mendoza, James Rosier, Francisco Serrăo, Umana and Leyba expedition, Pęro da Covilhă, Martín Ruiz de Gamboa, Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo, Ulrich Schmidl, Andrew Boorde, Richard Chancellor, John Mildenhall, Galeote Pereira, Jacob Cornelisz. van Neck, Pedro Marińo de Lobera, Melchor Díaz, Jacob van Heemskerk, Juan Díaz de Solís, António de Abreu, Bernardo de la Torre, Cristóvăo Jacques, Domingo Martínez de Irala, Esteban Gómez, Dirck Gerritsz Pomp, Jorge Álvares, Juan Fernández Ladrillero, Joăo de Castro, Nicolau Coelho, Nuno da Cunha, Gonçalo Coelho, Blas Ruiz, Joăo Álvares Fagundes, Cornelis Nay, Martim Afonso de Sousa, Brás Cubas, Francisco de Hoces, Richard Madox, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Miguel Corte-Real, Juan de Ayolas, Juan de Salcedo, Bartolomé Ferrelo, Pedro Mascarenhas, Diogo Veloso, Lourenço Marques, Duarte Fernandes, Don Felipe de Cáceres, Filipe de Brito e Nicote, Diogo Rodrigues, Francisco Ortiz de Vergara, Gonzalo de Mendoza, Jan Rijp, Lourenço de Almeida, Sebastián de Ocampo, Yńigo Ortiz de Retez, António da Madalena, Martín Fernández de Enciso, Sebastiăo Rodrigues Soromenho, Jorge de Menezes, Domingo Paes, Paulo Dias de Novais, Alonso de Salazar, Felipe de Salcedo, Estęvăo da Gama, Diogo Soares. Excerpt: Pedro Álvares Cabral (Portuguese pronunciation: in European Portuguese or Portuguese pronunciation: in Brazilian Portuguese; c. 1467 or 1468 - c. 1520) was a Portuguese noble, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil. Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal. While details of Cabral's early life are sketchy, it is known that he came from a minor noble family and received a good education. He was appointed to head an expedition to India in 1500, following Vasco da Gama's newly opened route around Africa. The object of the undertaking was to return with valuable spices and to establish trade relations in India-bypassing the monopoly on the spice trade then in the hands of Arab, Turkish and Italian merchants. His fleet of 13 ships sailed far into the western Atlantic Ocean, perhaps intentionally, where he made landfall on what he initially assumed to be a large island. As the new land was within the Portuguese sphere according to the Treaty of Tordesillas, Cabral claimed it for the Portuguese Crown. He explored the coast, realizing that the large land mass was probably a continent, and dispatched a ship to notify King Manuel I of the new territory. The continent was South America, and the land he had claimed for Portugal late...