Presentacion carmen y camila

Conflicts at the age of Exploration.

Cartier was a French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Law. River; which he named “the country of Canada”, after the Iroquois names for two big settlements he saw.
Cabot was an Italian Navigator and explorer in North America. He arrived to England in mid 1498 and was sent to the coast of North America.
Cabeza de Vaca was born in Spain in 1492. In the 16th century his name appeared as “ alvar nuñez cabeza de vaca” it really means “head of cow”, the last name was added to his mother´s family when his ancestor Martin Alanja aided a Christian army attacking moors and cow´s. In the early 1527 he departed from Spain as a part of a royal expedition to North America. He was one of the chief offices of the Narvaez expedition. The current send them into the gulf and the five rafts were separated by hurricane. He explored what is now the U.s ( Texas, N.M states). He lived in conditions of poverty and in slavery. He was naked the whole time ever since he sacrificed his clothes to make the boats.
Marco Polo was a merchant from the Venetian republic, wrote a book that has sold 2 million copies, which introduced Europeans to central Asia and China. He learned about trading with his father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo. Traveled through Asia and met Kiblah Khan. In 1269 they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the 1st time. He became a wealthy merchant, married and had 3 children. Died in 1324 and was buried in San Lorenzo.
Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León was born in the village of Santervas de Campos in the northern part of what is now the Spanish province of Valladolid. Ponce de León became an experienced soldier fighting in the Spanish campaigns that defeated the moors in Granada and completed the re-conquest of Spain in 1492.