Maps of the First Voyages of Discovery

The Medieval trade centers on the Mediterranean. But with the fall of Constantinople (1453) the Mediterranean becomes less secure. Europeans were eager to find new trade routes further to the east. Explores became increasingly innovative in their navigation tools such as the sextant. A sextant could measure the angle of the horizon thus helped them determine their exact longitude. European explorers heavily impacted various lands and their people. Explorers such as Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460) contributed to the establishment of the Atlantic slave trade: eager young men began their search for unknown lands. The gifted navigator Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512) was first to explore the coasts of Brazil. The name Amerigo was adopted as ‘America’ which is known as modern day Brazil. In Brazil, Portugal established large colonial plantation to satisfy the high demand for sugar. The planation’s earned profit until the Jesuit missionaries succeeded in restricted supply of Indian Slaves that were available to colonists. 1482 world map based on Ptolemy’s (100–168 c.)  was an successful map created during the first explorations (150 A.D). the very beginning of successful voyages Geography (c. 150 AD) that created a map of the world that only consisted of Asia, Europe, and South America. During the following 15^th and 16^th c., leaders of different European nations. The Portuguese were the earliest to participate in the “Age of Discovery.” One of these curious Portuguese explorers was Christopher Columbus. Son of a wool merchant, he was born in Genoa in 1451.  On August 3, 1492, Columbus and his men Sailed out to sea with three ships; Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. On October 12, ships made land on the land Columbus thought to be the Bahamian islands. With the increase in knowledge of the earth’s land, map-makers had the opportunity to advance their maps to the world. Waldseemuller’s map included data gathered during Amerigo. Vespucci’s voyages of 1501–1501 to the New World. Waldseemuller’s maps supported Vespucci’s revolutionary concept of the portraying the New World as a spate continent. Something that was unknown to the Europeans.  as the new