EXPLORERS

Columbus

Columbus and the Age of Discovery - numerous articles on the explorer.

Columbus Day - includes his voyages, writings, and controversies.

Columbus Day... What Does it Mean to You? - asking the question: was Columbus really an American hero?

Columbus Navigation Homepage

Columbus' letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494

Columbus's Medinah? - asking the question: was Columbus descended from a Spanish Jew?

Columbus, Christopher - The Columbus Doors explores the national myth and how its perception has changed over time.

Introduction to 1492: An Ongoing Voyage

Is Columbus A Jerk? - reevaluating the man and his accomplishments.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html

Privileges and Prerogatives Granted to Columbus - from Documents Tracking the Theft of the Red Man's Land.

Vikings

http://www.iceland.org//leifur.html

http://viking.no/e/people/leif/e-leiv.htm

http://infoplease.com/ce5/CE030153.html

http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/educate/leiferic.htm

http://search.excite.com/relocate/sr=webresult|ss=Balboa|id=10311583;http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7012/balboa.html

http://www.mnc.net/norway/ericson.htm

Ponce deLeon

http://search.excite.com/relocate/sr=webresult|ss=ponce+de+leon+|id=1519446;http://www.gms.ocps.k12.fl.us/biopage/n-s/deleon.html

http://search.excite.com/relocate/sr=webresult|ss=ponce+de+leon+|id=3601000;http://www.greencastle.k12.in.us/stark/deleon.htm

http://darter.ocps.k12.fl.us/classroom/who/darter2/ponce.html

http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/century/explorers/deleon.html

http://www.travelfacts.com/tfacts/htm/pr/pr001.htm
 
 

Magellan

http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/09526b.htm

http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/SCHUES01.ART

Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) - first circumnavigator of the real world.

Ferdinand Magellan: The Greatest Voyager of Them All - "initiator and leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, in 1519-22." An essay written by Raymond Schuessler.

Magellan's Voyage Round the World, 1519-1522 CE - from the Modern History Sourcebook.

After Dire Straits, an Agonizing Haul Across the Pacific - a generation after Columbus Magellan's tiny fleet sailed west, then on around the world. Written by Simon Winchester.

First Circumnavigator of the Globe - snubbed by the Portuguese king, Magellan easily convinced the teenaged Spanish king, Charles I to finance his voyage.
 

Cortes

http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/cortez.htm

http://www.umich.edu/~proflame/texts/mirror/conflict.html

http://www.greencastle.k12.in.us/stark/cortez.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7012/cortez.html
 
 

Vasco da Gama

http://www.csn.net/advent/cathen/06374a.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/militaryorders/vascogama.html

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/exgama.htm

http://www.portuguesecg.co.za/gama/index.htm

http://www.nettech.org/District20/ps163/explorer.htm

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4034/dagama.html
 
 

Marco Polo

http://www.korcula.net/mpolo/

http://www.korcula.net/mpolo/mpolo4.htm

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4034/dagama.html

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/expolo.htm

http://www.kidsearch.org/kidsearch/3-5/subjects/inventors.html

Henry the Navigator

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/henry.html

http://www.thornr.demon.co.uk/kchrist/phenry.html

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/eurvoya/henry3.html

http://www.greencastle.k12.in.us/stark/henrynav.htm

http://www.mrdowling.com/610-henry.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/henry.html
 
 

Amerigo Vespucci

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4034/vespucci.html

http://www.liverpool.k12.ny.us/Whacked/IntranetCurr/SocialStudies/AmazonAdventure/vespucci.htm

http://www.reach.net/~jasper70/vespucci.html

http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/papers/main.html

http://www.amerigo-vespucci.com/
 
 

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