i'm doing a school project on sea-lions and i'm supposed to relate it to class material. we're studying exploration right now and a lot of sea lions are from california's peninsula. i've been looking and looking and can't find anything. only tell me if you're sure it's this explorer.
2007-10-21 07:19:52 · 7 answers · asked by puppydog 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I submit you can easily find this answer in your textbook and/or class notes. I can guarantee you that sea lions have nothing to do with it!
You can find information on the exploration of California here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/portam/cabrilho.html
2007-10-21 07:24:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Spaniards claim to have been the first, but who knows? There is no way of telling whether the first explorers were those intrepid voyagers who came down the west coast of North America after crossing over from Siberia, or if they were Japanese fishermen who came up the Aleutian Islands and down the coast, or if they were natives from Tahiti, South America or elsewhere in the South Pacific who roamed at will across that great ocean.
So the answer to your question is Juan Cabrillo, in approx. 1450, if you go by the history books, but if you choose to believe, as I do, that there were many others long before that, you can take your pick of who you think they may have been, and where they may have come from.
2007-10-21 07:29:56 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many historians of California confer upon Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo the honor of "discoverer" of what is now California in 1542.
2007-10-21 07:29:30 · answer #3 · answered by theriddle711 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's some dispute about this. Most would say Cabrillo ( or Cabrilho). Some would say Drake. Others would give credit to the Chinese, but most historians dismiss this idea. Look up Cabrilho and Drake and you should get lots of good info.
2007-10-21 07:25:01 · answer #4 · answered by TG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows his name. He crossed the Bering Strait during the Ice Age, and he or his descendents crossed into what we now call California.
If you are wondering who was the first to record that discovery and those records survive, well, that's a different question. Try the link below.
2007-10-21 07:27:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Google search, which took all of a few seconds, turned up this...
http://www.greencity.org/discovery.html
2007-10-21 07:25:29 · answer #6 · answered by curtisports2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mister C. Lion ?
2007-10-21 07:23:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋