The Great Explorer

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Though it might seem trivial, this topic is ideal for covering the 2014 National Curriculum aims and objectives for history, which state that children are to develop an awareness of the lives of significant individuals in the past, who have contributed to national and international achievements. Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky: Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland, His Exile into Kamchatka, His Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula through the Northern Pacific Ocean, Touching at Japan and Formosa, to Canton in China, with an Account of the French Settlement He Was Appointed to Form upon the Island of Madagascar".

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In this lesson, children will make comparisons between her exploration and Matthew Henson's polar explorations about a hundred years earlier. Although the ship was to change, the type did not; the Resolution of the second and third voyages was of the same build, and even came from the same shipyard as the Endeavour, to whose qualities, wrote Cook, 'those on board owe their Preservation.As one of the earliest known Chinese explorers, Zheng He (Cheng Ho) led voyages that brought him through Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Later, he was secretly commissioned by Elizabeth I to set off an expedition against the colonies of the Spanish empire – the most powerful in the world at the time. In 1532, accompanied by his brothers, Pizarro overthrew the Inca leader Atahualpa and conquered Peru.

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While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. A favourite of King Manuel I, Cabral was asked to embark on a ‘follow-up’ expedition to India in 1500, along the route that da Gama had charted three years earlier.On hearing that the American Robert Peary had achieved the feat, Amundsen decided to change course and instead set sail for Antarctica. By Sebastiano del Piombo - This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Shackleton then takes 5 crew members and crosses 1,300km of perilous ocean to South Georgia in a bid to get help. A month or so later, Cabot set foot on what he thought was Asia but was actually somewhere in eastern Canada- perhaps Newfoundland, or southern Labrador.

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This final lesson also discusses how people's opinions change over time in terms of who is considered to be significant and what individuals should and should not be commemorated. In this lesson, children discuss whether or not it is right that Neil Armstrong is remembered as the most significant person involved in the first Moon landing. His voyage made him the first European to reach India by sea, and opened up the first sea route connecting Europe to Asia. After staying mere days, Cabral sailed back across the Atlantic, leaving two degredados, exiled criminals, who would father the first of Brazil’s mestizo population.Columbus’ voyages were the first European expeditions to the Caribbean, Central America and South America, and opened the way for the European exploration and permanent colonisation of the Americas.