Timeline of Exploration

  • 700 BCE

    Salt for Gold

    Salt for Gold
    In this time Arab merchants traveled from Sahara to Ghana to exchange salt for gold
  • 700 BCE

    Mali vs Ghana

    Mali vs Ghana
    Mali captures Ghana because of Timbuktu which is the capital base for trading
  • 1292

    Marco Polo reaches China

    Marco Polo reaches China
    Marco Polo travels to China through the Silk Route. He trades Gun Powder for Silk, Spices and Paper
  • 1400

    Cortes meets Aztecs

    Cortes meets Aztecs
    In this time Cortes travels from Spain to Mexico. He challenged the king of the indigenous and named Mexico, New Spain. Many indigenous died because of small pox, war and some died of starvation
  • 1418

    School of Navigation

    School of Navigation
    Prince Henry opens a navigation school and teaches sailors, tool makers and astronomer. Due to the exploration school, exploration was more invested in
  • 1487

    Bartolomeu Dias explores Africa

    Bartolomeu Dias explores Africa
    Bartolomeu Dias explores Africa after the School of Navigation. Bartolomeu Dias a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa also known as Cape of Good Hope or Cape Town in 1488
  • 1497

    Vasco Da Gama reaches India

    Vasco Da Gama reaches India
    Vasco Da Gama reaches India, but does not get a warm welcome because his gifts did not have good value. On his next voyage he brutally crashed with muslim traders. He died because of malaria
  • 1500

    Diogo Dias discovers Madagascar

    Diogo Dias discovers Madagascar
    Diogo Dias discovers Madagascar and reaches the gate of the Red Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.
  • 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan travels the whole World

    Ferdinand Magellan travels the whole World
    He was a portuguese explorer who had led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth in 1519-1522. Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean: which means that it is a calm, peaceful ocean.
  • 1554

    Francisco Vásquez de Coronado reaches Southwest America

    Francisco Vásquez de Coronado reaches Southwest America
    He was a Portuguese explorer who was the first European to explore North America's Southwest.
  • Sputnik travels beyond Earth

    Sputnik travels beyond Earth
    Sputnik was the first satellite to go beyond space it's launch was only revealed after its success
  • Soviet Explores Mars

    Soviet Explores Mars
    Soviet Union was the first to launch a Mars mission to explore Mars. Considering that the first satellite, the Soviet Union's Sputnik, launched in 1957, it is extraordinary that only three years later the Soviet Union space program looked to extend its reach to Mars.
  • Woman on Space

    Woman on Space
    The Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space.
  • Man on Moon

    Man on Moon
    This was the first rocket to moon. It consists of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michel Colins. The mission was called Apollo 11
  • Woman on Moon

    Woman on Moon
    The United States did not have a woman in space until 1983, when astronaut Sally Ride launched with the seventh Space Shuttle mission. Since then more than 40 American women have entered space
  • Chandrayan on Moon

    Chandrayan on Moon
    India's first rocket to Moon Chandrayan. It found the existence of water on moon and then Chandrayan 2 was launched to check if really there is existence of water on moon. Evidence for surface water came from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper experiment on Chandrayaan-1. Initially it showed the presence of water on the sunlit side using.