Pedro Siqueira,
Pedro P. Juan and Victoria
This text, as you see on the title, talks about some of the famous
explorers of the age of exploration (that reached north America). Most of the
explores started navigating because they wanted to be famous or because they
wanted to find new goods for the country they worked for. The trips were very
difficult because people could get sick and die, one of the most famous
sickness was called scurvy that was caused by lack of vitamin C.
Now we will talk about three explorers we
research:
Henry Hudson: people think he was born in the late 16th
century in England. He spent his whole life searching for a new route to Asia
but he finally ended finding a route for the north Americas. There's so little
information about his life before his first voyage. But it is known that he
learned to navigate from fisherman and sailors. (He worked for England) On his
first voyage he sailed from England to Svalbard. On his second trip he went
from Europe till the Russian Artic national Park. After that he travelled a lot
but on Hudson's last voyage in 1611 he was left to drift and then die.
John Cabot: was born in genoa, Italy and sailed around 1450. He
made a voyage in 1497 on the ship Mathew and claimed land on Canada ( mistaking
by Asia) for King Henry VII of England. When he was little he moved to England.
In May 1496, John Cabot departed from Bristle with 5 ships and a crew of 300
men. In route 1 ship sailed to Ireland and the other four continued on. In 1497
Cabot went to Asia believing the route would be shorter, he traveled with 18
men.
Magellan: was born in Portugal. In 1480 his objective was to go
on a west voyage to reach the spice islands because prince Charles I asked him
to do so. He made it. When he was sailing by a sea he thought the sea was
slowly and peaceful. So he named that sea the “Peaceful Sea” that nowadays is
called the Pacific Ocean. When he was coming back from the spice islands he
fought with the Philippines and he was killed with a poison arrow in his heart.
After his crew went back to Spain without his body, because the Philippines
stayed with his body they liked as a trophy. His crew proved that the world was
round, they circumnavigate the planet Earth.
