Question

Drag each label to the correct location on the image.

Answer 1

Gil Eannes after Cape Bojador in Africa.

Cristopher Columbus to Central America.

Jacques Cartier  to Canada.

Bartolomeu Dias to India.

Pedro Álvares de Cabral to South America --Brazil.

Answer 2

The answer is:

Gil Eannes after Cape Bojador in Africa.

Cristopher Columbus to Central America.

Jacques Cartier  to Canada.

Bartolomeu Dias to India.

Pedro Álvares de Cabral to South America --Brazil.

• Christopher Columbus was a navigator, cartographer, admiral, viceroy and governor general of the West Indies in the service of the Crown of Castile. He is famous for having made the discovery of America, on October 12, 1492, upon reaching the island of Guanahani, now in the Bahamas.

• Jacques Cartier was a French navigator and explorer who made three trips to North America at the service of the French crown, which made him the first explorer of that nationality in the New World. He was the first explorer of the Gulf of San Lorenzo (1534), the discoverer of the namesake San Lorenzo River (1535) and also commander of the Charlesbourg-Royal colony (1541-42).

• Bartolomé Díaz was a Portuguese navigator known for being the first European explorer to dub in early 1488 the southern tip of Africa, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, one of the most important events in the history of sailing.

• Pedro Álvarez Cabral was a fidalgo, Portuguese military commander, navigator and explorer, considered the first to arrive in Brazil. Also, Cabral is known to be one of the first Europeans to arrive on the northeast coast of South America, which he claimed for Portugal.

• The cape is a prominent cape of the North African Atlantic coast, located on the northern coast of Western Sahara. The first known European navigator who managed to overtake him was the Portuguese sailor Gil Eanes in 1434, on his fifteenth expedition, under the auspices of Prince Henry the Navigator.