History: Age of Exploration

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Includes links to primary documents, innovations enabling exploration, European exploration, Spanish Conquistadors, slave trade, and image resources.

Memorial University (Newfoundland) offers this series of articles on this region's early explorers. There's information on geographical knowledge and navigation methods at Cabot's time, explorers before Cabot's time (be sure to see the section on the Norse), and Cabot himself

This section of the Virtual Museum of New France invites you to get to know the Frenchmen who, by turns, pushed back the frontiers of the lands known to Europeans and who made it possible for France to extend its sphere of influence.