conquistadores
Portugese
South and Central America south and central America
amerigo vespucci
pazaro
Spain, Portugal, England, France and Netherlands, primarily,
Many nations were represented by the many explorers who sailed in 1497.
Hernán Cortés
discovered parts of north america, claimed it for france, sailed a ship as one of the first European explorers to discover North America
Christopher Columbus
Spanish explorers traveled extensively throughout the Western Hemisphere. The conquistadores traveled as far north as the western portion of the present-day United States to the southernmost regions of the present-day countries of Chile and Argentina. The Spanish also sailed through the Pacific and reached the Philippines.
The sailed for sex
yes
Well, Columbus had three ships with a crew of a couple of hundred men; does that count? After him, other explorers like Henry Hudson and a host of Spanish explorers. Even before Columbus, there was Leif Erickson and his Vikings, and the Vikings who sailed to Vinland in Labrador, or the Irish monks who were rumored to have sailed from Ireland to North America.