Spain, Portugal, England, France and Netherlands, primarily,
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Many nations were represented by the many explorers who sailed in 1497.
In the 1400s, Chinese explorers sailed along the eastern coast of Africa, while Portuguese explorers sailed along the western coast of Africa. The Chinese explorer Zheng He led expeditions to East Africa, while Portuguese explorers such as Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama reached the southern tip of Africa and eventually sailed to India.
Many explorers sailed under the flag of their birth countries, including Christopher Columbus, who sailed for Spain but was born in Genoa, Italy. Ferdinand Magellan, originally from Portugal, also explored under the Spanish flag during his circumnavigation of the globe. Other notable examples include Vasco da Gama, who sailed for Portugal, and John Cabot, who was born in Italy but sailed for England. These explorers often sought riches and new trade routes for their home nations.
They either walked or they sailed around south America
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
The sailed for sex
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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.
Henry Hudson
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