Caboto, Vespucci, Balboa, and Magellan
Giovanni Caboto 1497
Columbus’ journeys inspired Europe’s
leaders to explore and claim land.
England sent Giovanni Caboto to the
north of where Columbus went.
Caboto claimed the land for England
and returned to England thinking that
he had been to China.
Amerigo Vespucci
1499 and 1501
Amerigo Vespucci did not believe
that Columbus and Caboto had sailed
to Asia.
He sailed for Portugal two times. He
went to where Columbus landed, and
then south along the coast.
Amerigo Vespucci
1499 and 1501
Vespucci showed that there was land
between Europe and Asia.
These new continents, North and
South America, were named for
Amerigo Vesspucci.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
1513
Balboa was one of the first Spanish
settlers in America.
He was living in Central America when
he learned about an ocean to the west.
He became the first European to see
what we now call the Pacific Ocean.
Ferdinand Magellan
1519-1521
Magellan was from Portugal, but sailed
for Spain in search of a route to Asia.
He headed west from Spain in 1519 with
five ships and 250 sailors.
He was the first European to sail
around South America.
Ferdinand Magellan
1519-1522
Magellan sailed across the Pacific to the
Phillipine Islands.
He and his men fought with the
Natives, and he was killed.
His men continued on through Asia and
back to Spain. They were the first to
circumnavigate the Earth.