Bartholomew Diaz

• Portuguese explorer

• Discovered Cape of Good Hope

  • Southern tip of Africa

• Portugal needed land and route to Indian Ocean trade

  • First ships got lost

  • Diaz finished voyage

    • Better access to Chinese goods

    • Increased gold trade with Africa

    • More trade with Asia without interference from Dar al-Islam

John Cabot

• Born in 1450 in Italy

• Learn to sail from seamen and merchants

• Traveled from Bristol to Canada

  • Thought Canada was Asia

  • Explored coastline of Asia

• First voyage

  • 1496 - got patent to find pathway to Asia

  • Made landfall in North America

  • Took Canada for England and Italy

• Second voyage

  • 1407

  • Back to North America

  • Died at sea due to storm

Prince Henry the Navigator

• Portuguese prince

• Did not go on any voyages

• Only sponsored voyages

• First voyage

  • Islands of Madeira and Porto Santo

    • Both in the Atlantic

• Significance

  • Economic growth in port cities

  • Resulted in discovery and depopulation in multiple villages on West African coast

• Voyages

  • Rediscovered many Atlantic Islands

  • Discovered Cape Verde Islands