Four West European Explores That Traveled to the New World.

*2. (a) Name four west European countries that explored the vernal World and phone* one explorer who sailed for each country, (b) Of the four *explorers, named*, state the one you would most clear liked to accompany. Discuss two reasons for your choices. Four west European explores that travelled to the New World. drawframe drawframe Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 5/20/1506 Jacques Cartier (12/31/1491 9/1/1557) drawframe John Cabot_ (c. 1450 c. 1498)_ Pedro Alvares Cabral_ (c. 1468 c. 520)_ The dry wash to find new spice and travel r surfacees spurred a very exciting time in history which eventually lead to the founding and settling of New World. These discoveries lead us to settlement and establishment ofour own country. Although Norse explorer Erik the Reds son,Leaf Ericson landed on what he called Vinland, now Newfoundland Canada, a unretentive over a thousand years ago, Western European countries really made the push for colonization about five hundred years later. These countries include Spain, Portugal, England, and France. Spain had some explorers and impacts in New World exploration.With a monarchy that was willing to finance and explore, Spain found riches in gold through South, Central, and North America. Of all Spains, and the ground explorers, none are more famous than Christopher Columbus. Every generation of Americans knows he set sail in 1492, but Im surprised how many dont realize he landed in the Caribbean, and by mistake. Looking for a spice route to the Indies, Columbus and his crew named the local inhabits Indians because he thought wrongly of his location, and eventually started disease epidemics and slavery in the area.Giovanni Caboto was a Venetian explorer who sailed for England and thus became better known as John Cabot. On 5 March 1496, King Henry VII of England basically gave Cabot free license to do whatever he wanted under the English flag. On his second voyage in 1497 he ended up in upper north east Canada and is credited with being the first European since Erikson to spend North America. With Portugals impact in early navigation, thanks largelyto Prince Henry the Navigator and his navigational school, its natural that there would be an explorer who would have an impact on New World exploration.With explorers like Dias, Magellan (who sailed for Spain), and even Columbus who lived, married, and studied in Portugal, yet another name came about. Pedro Alvares Cabral was given the task to revolve Christianity were ever he went, by force if necessary. With thirteen ships, he set sail on March 9th(my birthday) 1500. After some mishaps, he finally reached what is like a shot modern day Brazil and making claim to the New World in the name of Portugal which would later lead to a dispute under the treaty of Tordesilas.Jacques Cartier sailed for the French and claimed what is now Canada for France. Cartier not only sailed all the way to Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Saint Lawrence River, but he was the fi rst European to describe and part it. Of these four explorers I would choose Cabral to accompany. His voyage to Brazil was almost a world tour including Africa, India, and South America. I would prefer to stay in these regions and out of the northern colder regions as Cartier and Cabot explored.