Question

Label each route with the explorer who navigated it during the age of exploration. Gil Eannes Christopher Columbus Jacques Cartier Bartolomeu Dias Pedro Alvares Cabral

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Gil Eanes was the first to cross the Cape Bojador on the African coast;

Christopher Columbus departed from Spain in 1492, cross the Atlantic Ocean and reached in America in October 1492;

Jacques Cartier made almost the same route travelled by Columbus, the difference is that Cartier reached on the modern Canada trough the Lawrence River.

Bartolomeu Dias circumnavigated the African Coast trough the route previously made by his predecessors, reached the Indian Ocean and arrived in Calicut in 1498.

Pedro Alvares Cabral departed from Portugual in March 1500 destined to India. However, when he reached the Equatorian Line, he deviates the original route and sailed to the West, arriving in what would become Brazil.

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