Early European Explorers

 Internet Resources for Activities

Web sites to explore about early European Explorers.  Click on the links below

 

Compare and Contrast
Diaz’s and daGama’s Voyages

Discoverers by Alphabet

www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/alpha.html

Passenger of the Slave Trade

Exploration History

http://207.149.11.2/vinland/Explorers/exhistry.htm

Technological Advances

Early Navigation Methods

www.mariner.org/age/earlynav.html

Latitude changed knowledge of the world

www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/

Caravel Ship

Caravel: A Revolutionary Sailing Ship

www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/c/caravel.shtml

Viking Ships

www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/vikingships.htm

North Star (Polaris)
 

The Constellations

www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm

Constellations

www.seds.org/Maps/Const/constS.html

Viking Ships

Nomads of the North Atlantic: The Original Viking Ships

www.beyond.landsend.com/viking/ship/vi_orig_ships.html

Viking Ships

www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/vikingships.htm

Magellan’s Expedition

Ferdinand Magellan

www.mariner.org/age/magellan.html

Explorers -M

www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/indexm.shtml

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