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
The sailed for sex
yes
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.
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.