Marquette and Joliet. Explored the Mississippi by canoe. La Salle. Claimed Louisiana. In , France's King Francis I authorized the navigator Jacques Cartier to lead a voyage to the New World in order to seek gold and other riches, as well as a new route to Asia. Cartier's three expeditions along the St.
Who is America named after? Amerigo Vespucci Biography. America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine navigator and explorer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World.
What do French people look like? Why did France explore the new world? The French began their exploration of the New World by looking for new fishing waters and the Northwest Passage. At first, they only founded temporary trading posts, but as profits increased and more French people found their way to the New World, permanent settlements were established, such as New Orleans.
How did the Age of Exploration impact the world? Henry Hudson made his first voyage west from England in , when he was hired to find a shorter route to Asia from Europe through the Arctic Ocean.
After twice being turned back by ice, Hudson embarked on a third voyage—this time on behalf of the Dutch East India Company—in John Cabot or Giovanni Caboto, as he was known in Italian was an Italian explorer and navigator who may have developed the idea of sailing westward to reach the riches of Asia while working for a Venetian merchant.
Though the exact details of his life and expeditions are the In search of fame and fortune, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan c. En route he discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the Francisco Pizarro was an explorer, soldier and conquistador best known for conquering the Incas and executing their leader, Atahuapla. He was born around in Trujillo, Spain.
A decade later, he was serving as governor of the eastern province of Hispaniola when he decided to explore a nearby island, which became The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in , , and He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did.
Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas. Though he did not really There were no official English voyages after that of John Rut until the s, when a succession of English mariners attempted to find a northwest passage to Asia - that is, a sea route around the top of North America. They had been preceded in by John Cabot's son Sebastian. With vessels supplied by the king, Cabot is thought by many scholars to have entered Hudson Strait and possibly Hudson Bay, before retreating south.
Nothing came of this voyage, nor from that of Jean Alfonse, who in explored the whole Labrador coast from south to north. The next attempt was not until , when Martin Frobisher made the first of three voyages to try and find the passage. These voyages began to delineate the geography of the east Arctic with some accuracy, including Hudson Bay and the most northerly parts of Labrador. But if mariners came further south, — not usually intentional — they were not interested in what Newfoundland and Labrador had to offer, but how to get round the continent to Asia, and therefore sailed to Hudson Strait via Greenland.
However, John Davis sailed south along the Labrador coast in - two of his men were killed by Inuit - and again in , giving Cape Chidley its name, as well as Davis Inlet. John Knight was forced onto the Labrador coast by ice in , where he and three crew members disappeared, and in William Gibbons was icebound for ten weeks in Saglek Bay. How do the expeditions end? What effect does leadership have on the expeditions?
How do the Indians respond to the Europeans? Contrast the first encounters and subsequent contacts. To whom do the chroniclers address their accounts? To what extent are their accounts political "texts"? What changes in knowledge and attitude are apparent in the two maps of Canada created in and ? By the late s, what does the New World appear to offer France? To the native inhabitants, what do the Europeans appear to offer?
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