15th & 16th century explorers

Social

-The king owned all the land in the country and made the laws.

-The nobles gave some land to professional soldiers.

-The peasants work the land for the nobles and offer them protection.

-Vienna Congress, was a meeting of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich

Political

• Trade and business activity made a geographical difference in Europe during the middle ages.
• Atlantic following the discovery of America and new sea routes to Asia.

Economic

Christopher Columbus

He returned to Spain with gold, spices, and “Indian” captives in March 1493.

In May 1498, Columbus left Spain with six ships, three filled with colonists and three with provisions for the colony. He made it to Trinidad.By the scope of the Orinoco River in Venezuela, he realized he had arrived to another continent.

On May 20, 1506, the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus died of severe arthritis followed by an infection.

Christopher Columbus was born around 1451 in Genoa (Italy)

In August of 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella gave him, three ships and 87 men, Columbus set sail with the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

In October of 1492, Columbus had the purpose to find china but, he and his crew arrived to Bahamas.They were greeted by the native population and Columbus took the gold, and he finished the first journey in Haiti.

He was christian, he was the first european to discover America. HE was one of the few people that knew that the world was round.

https://history.info/on-this-day/1451-isabella-of-castile-queen-who-financed-the-first-voyage-of-columbus-across-the-atlantic/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Vazquez-de-Coronado

Francisco Vazquez De Coronado

- He was born in 1510 Salamanca, Spain, and at the age of 25 he arrived in New Spain (today Mexico) to try his luck in the New World.

- In 1537 he moved to Nueva Galicia to assume the position of governor.

- The following year he obtained financing and advanced an expedition of 800 Mexican Indians and about 340 Spaniards who had contributed their own money to finance the expedition with the intention of obtaining land and being advanced of land.

- The expedition would depart on May 9, 1540 and would enter following the coast of New Spain inside the Gulf of California, then continue north to Yuma, an area that is now Arizona.

- Coronado explored the West in 1540; While he sent García López de Cárdenas to explore the east side where the Hopi Indians were located, they also met the Colorado Canyon, historiography baptized this fact as the Tiguex War.

-Coronado continued as Governor of Nueva Galicia until 1544, and he later retired to Mexico City. Subsequently, he died of a serious illness on September 22, 1554.

-Much has been investigated about his life, especially the Guerrero chronicler Alfredo Mundo Fernández who has studied several offices of the General Archive of the Nation, this has served to write his book: Chronicles of Tierra Caliente (2014).

https://historia-biografia.com/francisco-vazquez-de-coronado/