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| sent ships to the Azores, Canary Islands,and west coast of Africa. |
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| sailed around the tip of Southern Africa (Cape of Good Hope) in 1488 |
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| sailed around Africa and across the Indian Ocean,reaching India inin 1498. |
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| reached the Bahamas in 1492; went ashore on small island,named it San Salvador. |
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| sailed across the Atlantic Ocean,landed on the coast of Brazil in 1500 |
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| crossed the mountains in Panama in 1513 and discovered the Pacific Ocean |
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| discovered strait around southern tip of South America in 1520; some of crew completed first circumnavigation of globe. |
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| landed in Mexico in 1519,completed conquest of Aztec in 1521. |
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| arrived in Peru in 1530,completed the conquest of the Inca by 1535. |
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| landed in Florida in 1513 hoping to find "fountain of youth" |
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| Francisco Vázquez de Coronado |
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| led expedition threough Nothern Mexico,Arizona,and New Mexico in search of fabled seven cities of gold; reached Zuni,town of Cibola in 1540. |
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| landed in Newfoundland in 1497 |
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| explored coast from present-day Nova Scotia to the Carolinas in 1524. |
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| discovered and sailed up the Hudson River in 1609. |
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| led three-year expedition through southeastern United States; crossed Mississippi River in 1541 |
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