Ferdinand Magellan's original reason for exploration was to reach the spice islands.
Captain James Cook
spice islands
Captain James Cook was the first European explorer to reach the Hawaiian Islands in 1778.
it took magellan and his men 3 years to reach the spice islands but magellan died in the Philippines
The Portugese were the first Europeans to reach the Indonesian Islands. The Europeans wanted to dominated the spice trade that was very lucrative at the time.
In the decades following the conquest of the Aztecs, the Spanish were obsessed with the search for more precious metals.Therefore, Spain stopped all efforts to reach the spice islands taking it their own idea.
The explorer Juan Ponce De Leon was the first explorer to reach Florida
Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to reach Asia by ship. He was a Portuguese explorer who lived from 1480 to 1521 CE.
Pizarro was the first Spanish explorer to reach Peru and conquer the Inca Empire.
Juan Ponce de Leon was the first European explorer to reach Florida.
The first explorer to reach James river fall line was Christopher Newport.