Explorers

A Bequest Unearthed, Phoenicia  - Phoenicia, origin, history.

Ancient Greeks - Discover what life was like in Ancient Greece.

Athena Review - Journal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration.

Caesar, Julius - Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars...

First Europeans - Traveled to Khan's Court.

Irish Monks and the Voyage of St. Brendan - Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web.

John Cabot's - 1497 Voyage & the Limits of Historiography

In the footsteps of Joseph Rock - Eastern Tibet. The Archives.

Marco Polo - Marko Polo and Korcula by dr. Zivan Filippi.

Marco Polo and his travels - From the Silkroad Foundation.

Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web - Patrimoine de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador.

Phoenician Sea and Land Voyages and Routes - Hanno of Carthage and his African expedition.

Vikings

LEIF ERICSSON - Discoverer of America.

Leif Ericsson Giograph  - In 986, Norwegian-born Eirik Thorvaldsson, known as Eirik the Red...

The Norse History of Greenland  - In the year 1000 A.D., Greenlander Leif Eriksson, son of Eric the Red...

The Viking Expeditions from Central Sweden (700-1000): - Lars' undergraduate Honors Thesis.

The Vikings in Vinland - Norse contacts with North America: written sagas and archaeological findings.

Vikings - Where is Vinland?

The English

James Cook - British Navigator and Explorer 1728 - 1779.

James Cook - Born in the Yorkshire village of Marton on October 27, 1728.

James Lancaster - The Voyage to Asia by James Lancaster, 1600.

John Cabot - Explored North America and searched for the Northwest Passage.

John Cabot - Not very much is known for certain about John Cabot

Henry Hudson (c.1550-1611) - The life and times of Henry Hudson, explorer and adventurer.

Henry Hudson - An Englishman, helped found a trading organization, the Muscovy Company.

Hudson River Maritime Museum - Henry Hudson and the Half Moon.

Ralph Fitch - The First Englishmen in Bombay.

Sir Francis Drake - Pirates & Privateers.

Sir Martin Frobisher - Ssailed the northeast North American coast.

The First Explorers ?

Hoei-Shin - In AD 499, a Buddhist missionary...

China - Ti's Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne ruled the entire South Pacific and the Indian Ocean...

Did the Chinese Discover America? - Was person from China the real discoverer of the America's?

The Conquistadors

Agustin Rodrguez - Explorer and leader of the Rodrguez-Snchez expedition...

Alonso lvarez de Pineda - Commanded a Spanish expedition that sailed along the Gulf of Mexico coastline...

Andrs Dorantes de Carranza - Early Spanish explorer...

Antonio de Espejo - Born in Torre Milano, a suburb of Crdova, Spain.

Antonio Gutirrez de Humana - Second in command of the illegal expedition of Francisco Leyva de Bonillaqv in 1594.

Bartolomeu Dias - A famous Portuguese navigator of the fifteenth century...

Bartolomeu Dias - (en Algarve 1450-au large du cap de Bonne-Espérance 1500) Navigateur portugais.

Diego Prez de Luxan - Entered the recorded annals of Texas and New Mexico history during the years 1582-83...

Estevanico - From being a slave to being a explorer.

Florida History - Spaniards explored America in the 1540's on trails that became our highways..

Francisco de Garay - The Handbook of Texas.

Francisco Leyva de Bonilla - A Portuguese captain 1594.

Francisco Sanchez - A captain in the Spanish army, born about 1512...

Francisco Sanchez and Agustn Rodrguez - The founding in 1567 of Santa Brbara.

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado - Seeking the fabled Seven Golden Cities of Cibola, he found only poor Indian villages...

Juan de Onate - was born circa 1550 in the frontier settlement of Zacatecas, Mexico...

Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva (ca. 1540-1590). Governor....

Luis de Moscoso - Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, born in Badajoz, Spain, in 1505.

Marcos de Niza - A controversial Franciscan explorer...

Os Descobrimentos Portugueses - Navegadores.

Pnfilo de Narvez - Narvez was born in Spain around 1475.

Pnfilo de Narvez - Britannica.

Publius Historicus - Le XVIe siècle est pour l'Europe celui de la Renaissance et des Grandes Découvertes, de l'Humanisme et des débuts de la Science moderne. Also in English.

Spanish Missions - In Georgia.

Timicuan - Native people who spoke the Timucua language occupied most of the northern one-third of peninsular Florida...

Tristn de Luna - From the Borobia estates in the villas of Cicia and Borobia in Spain.

Jusepe Gutirrez (Jusephe, Jos, Joseph) - A native of Culhuacan, was a Mexican Indian servant.

Vasco Nuez de Balboa - Balboa sailed to Hispaniola in 1501 on an expedition...

Vicente de Zaldvar - The younger, Spanish explorer and soldier...

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