early explorers
Initial territory discoverers
Early explorers refers to those who traveled to unfamiliar territories in the early periods of exploration, particularly Europeans who ventured to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific from the 15th through 18th centuries.
The phrase appears mainly in educational contexts: We learned about early explorers like Columbus and Magellan.
It can also describe pioneers in any field during its formative period: early explorers of quantum physics.
- Christopher ColumbusNavigator who found the Americas
- Amerigo VespucciNavigator behind "America"
- astrolabeAncient altitude-measuring instrument
- compassDevice showing cardinal directions
- spicesAromatic food flavorings
Leif Erikson · Ferdinand Magellan · Sir Francis Drake · Marco Polo · Vasco da Gama · Henry the Navigator · colonialism · trade routes · scurvy · ships · dead reckoning · trade winds · flat earth · cultural exchange · native peoples · navigation · maps · logbooks
- maritime historysailors, ships, seamen, sailing ships, celestial navigation
- colonial historycolonization, colonies, pilgrims, Jamestown, Plymouth
- AcadiaAcadians, Port Royal, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, deportees
- Colonial AustraliaBotany Bay, penal colonies, convicts, penal colony, colonial settlement
- colonistscolonists, settler, Pilgrims, colonials, colonist
- El SalvadorSan Salvador, El Salvador, San Miguel, Montecristo, Berlin
early explorerssettlers
Those who establish homes
colonists · permanent residents · homesteaders · colonizers · immigrants
early explorersindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
original inhabitants · First Nations · native populations · locals