Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

Key Individuals: Christopher Columbus: Explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, Italy. His first voyage into the Atlantic Ocean in 1476 nearly cost him his life. Columbus participated in several other expeditions to Africa. 1492, Columbus left Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña along side. Christopher Columbus was hoping to find the new lands in his journey of 1492 which is now the Americas in which he found Hispaniola. On the evening

years prior, Marco Polo had written about. Columbus sailed from Palos, Spain, on August 3rd 1492 on three small vessels, the Santa María, directed by Christopher Columbus himself, the Pinta which was commanded under Martín Pinzón, and the Niña which was under Vicente Yáñez Pinzón comand. The three ships halted at the Canary Islands, the Columbus sailed west from September 6th 1492 until October 7th 1492, he altered his route and headed southwest. Soon after switching direction Columbus and his men

Caleb Remund Ms. Degreef English IV 10 March 2017 The Voyages that Found America America got its recognition from an Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci. Even though Amerigo visited America after Christopher Columbus did, he was the first person to recognize North and South America as different continents. These continents were first unknown to the Europeans, Asians, and Africans. Columbus made four trips over the Atlantic Ocean from Spain where he was originally from. He really wanted to find

that were involved in this voyage were The Pinta, The Nina, and the Santa Maria. These ships were coming from Palos. Columbus conducted this trip with the help of his two brothers Martin Alonso Pinzon that was in command of The Pinta. And his other brother who was the youngest of all Vicente Yanez Pinzon he was in charge of the Nina. On October 12th of 1492 Columbus and his brothers made landfall in the morning. Columbus landed at what we now call the Bahamas. But at that time Columbus had named

Brazil Stretching over 2,500 miles form east to west and 2,700 miles from north to south, Brazil is the world’s largest tropical country. The only nations that are larger are the lands of Russia, Canada, China and the United States. Brazil has more then 150 million people spread unevenly over its huge land area, making it the fifth most populated country in the world. (Encyclopedia.com) More then two thirds of Brazil’s people live in the cities and towns and more then 29 percent of them are in

Introduction - History The Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was the first known European in the region now constituting Brazil. Landing near the site of present-day Recife on January 26, 1500, he subsequently drifted northward as far as the mouth of the Orinoco River. In April 1500, the Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral also reached the coast of present-day Brazil and formally claimed the surrounding region in the name of Portugal. The territory was named Terra da Vera Cruz (Brazil