A Teaching Material produced for teaching X Standard English, Unit 1.

1. Globetrotters
X Standard English
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2. AmerigoVespucci
• Italian explorer
• DescriptionAmerigo Vespucci was an Italian
explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer
who was born in the Republic of Florence.
Wikipedia
• Born: 9 March 1454, Florence, Italy
• Died: 22 February 1512, Seville, Spain
• Nationality: Italian
• Spouse: Maria Cerezo (m. 1505–1512)
• Siblings: AgnolettaVespucci, BernardoVespucci,
AntonioVespucci, GerolamoVespucci
• Parents: NastagioVespucci, Lisabetta Mini
Vespucci

3. Bartolomeu Dias
• Portuguese explorer
• DescriptionBartolomeu Dias, a nobleman of the
Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese
explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of
Africa in 1488, the first European to do so, setting up
the route from Europe to Asia later on.Wikipedia
• Born: 1450, Faro District, Portugal
• Died: 29 May 1500, Cape of Good Hope, CapeTown,
South Africa
• Nationality: Portuguese
• Known for: First European to sail around the
southernmost tip of Africa
• Children: António Dias de Novais, Simão Dias de
Novais
• Siblings: Pêro Dias, Diogo Dias

4. Bartolomeu Dias
• Portuguese explorer
• DescriptionBartolomeu Dias, a nobleman of the
Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese
explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of
Africa in 1488, the first European to do so, setting up
the route from Europe to Asia later on.Wikipedia
• Born: 1450, Faro District, Portugal
• Died: 29 May 1500, Cape of Good Hope, CapeTown,
South Africa
• Nationality: Portuguese
• Known for: First European to sail around the
southernmost tip of Africa
• Children: António Dias de Novais, Simão Dias de
Novais
• Siblings: Pêro Dias, Diogo Dias

5. Christopher Columbus
• Explorer
• Description ChristopherColumbus was an Italian explorer,
navigator, and colonist who completed four voyages
across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the
Catholic Monarchs of Spain. Wikipedia
• Born: 1451, Genoa, Italy
• Died: 20 May 1506,Valladolid, Spain
• Buried: Catedral de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
• Children: Diego Columbus, Ferdinand Columbus
• Quotes
• Following the light of the sun, we left the OldWorld.
• No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of
our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His
holy service.
• For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not
make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps

6. Christopher Columbus

7. Ferdinand Magellan
• Portuguese explorer
• Description Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese
explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to
the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the
first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by
Juan Sebastián Elcano.Wikipedia
• Born: 3 February 1480, Sabrosa, Portugal
• Died: 27 April 1521, Mactan, Philippines
• Nationality: Portuguese
• Full name: Fernão de Magalhães
• Known for:The first circumnavigation of the Earth
• Spouse: María Caldera Beatriz Barbosa (m. 1517–
1521)

8. Ferdinand Magellan

9. Herodotus
• Greek historian
• Description Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was
born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He is known for having
written the bookThe Histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on
the origins of the Greco-PersianWars. Wikipedia
• Born: Halicarnassus
• Died:Thurii, Italy
• Nationality: Greek
• Parents: Lyxes, Dryo
• Quotes
• In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
• Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these
couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
• Force has no place where there is need of skill.

10. IBN BATTUTA
• Moroccan scholar
• Description Ibn Battuta was a Muslim Moroccan
scholar, and explorer who widely travelled the
medieval world. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn
Battuta visited most of the Islamic world and
many non-Muslim lands, including Central Asia,
SoutheastAsia, South Asia and China.Wikipedia
• Born: 24 February 1304,Tangier, Morocco
• Died: Marrakesh, Morocco
• Nationality: Moroccan
• Parents: Fatomah
• Era: Middle Ages

11. IBN BATTUTA
• Moroccan scholar
• Description Ibn Battuta was a Muslim Moroccan
scholar, and explorer who widely travelled the
medieval world. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn
Battuta visited most of the Islamic world and
many non-Muslim lands, including Central Asia,
SoutheastAsia, South Asia and China.Wikipedia
• Born: 24 February 1304,Tangier, Morocco
• Died: Marrakesh, Morocco
• Nationality: Moroccan
• Parents: Fatomah
• Era: Middle Ages

12. IBN BATTUTA
• Moroccan scholar
• Description Ibn Battuta was a Muslim Moroccan
scholar, and explorer who widely travelled the
medieval world. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn
Battuta visited most of the Islamic world and
many non-Muslim lands, including Central Asia,
SoutheastAsia, South Asia and China.Wikipedia
• Born: 24 February 1304,Tangier, Morocco
• Died: Marrakesh, Morocco
• Nationality: Moroccan
• Parents: Fatomah
• Era: Middle Ages

13. James Cook
• British explorer
• DescriptionCaptain James Cook FRS was a British
explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in
the Royal Navy.Wikipedia
• Born: 7 November 1728, Marton-in-Cleveland,
United Kingdom
• Died: 14 February 1779, Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii,
United States
• Buried: 21 February 1779, Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii,
United States
• Spouse: Elizabeth Batts Cook (m. 1762–1779)
• Children: NathanielCook, Hugh Cook, James
Cook, George Cook, Elizabeth Cook, Joseph Cook

14. Marco Polo
• Italian merchant
• Description
• Marco Polo was an Italian merchant, explorer, and
writer, born in the Republic ofVenice. His travels
are recorded in Livre des merveilles du monde, a
book that described to Europeans the wealth and
great size of China, its capital Peking, and other
Asian cities and countries.Wikipedia
• Born: 15 September 1254,Venice, Italy
• Died: 8 January 1324,Venice, Italy
• Spouse: Donata Badoer (m. 1300–1324)
• Known for:TheTravels of Marco Polo
• Nationality:Venetian, Italian

15. Vasco da Gama
• Portuguese explorer
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• DescriptionVasco da Gama, 1st Count ofVidigueira,
was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to
reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India was the
first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route,
connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and
therefore, theWest and the Orient.Wikipedia
• Born: Sines, Portugal
• Died: 24 December 1524, Kochi
• Nationality: Portuguese
• Buried: Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, Portugal
• Spouse(s): Catarina de Ataíde
• Ship: São Gabriel

16. Xuanzang
Chinese scholar
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DescriptionXuanzang was a Chinese Buddhist monk,
scholar, traveller, and translator who travelled to India
in the seventh century and described the interaction
between Chinese Buddhism and Indian Buddhism
during the earlyTang dynasty. He is also known as
HiuenTsang in history books of India.Wikipedia
Born: 6 April 602 AD, Luoyang, China
Died: 5 February 664 AD,Yintai District,Tongchuan,
China
Full name: Chen Hui
Nationality: Chinese
Parents: Lady Song, Chen Hui