John Cabot- Nova Scotia: He was an Italian navigator who is regarded as the first European in discovering the coast of North America and recorded it.
Sir Francis Drake- Vancouver: He was an English captain, the second in circumnavigating the world and the first one is doing it all as captain. The previous was Magallanes who was killed during the travel.
Henry Hudson- Hudson River: He found it as a mistake when he was looking for a northern pass from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean.
Jacques Cartier- St. Lawrence River: He was an explorer who claimed what today is Canada for France and was the first to put on a map of the St Lawrence River.
The fall of the city removed what was once a powerful defense for Christian Europe against Muslim invasion, allowing for uninterrupted Ottoman expansion into eastern Europe.
