In BC 139, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to Yue. His mission is to help the people in this area resist the invaders. Zhang Qian was imprisoned by Huns for 1 1 year, but after his release, he went to explore western China. His travel route passed through Afghanistan, and no one had been so far west of China at that time. After Zhang Qian came back, Emperor Xian of Han heard the news about Indian, Middle East and European countries for the first time.
Contribution: Zhang Qian was the first China man to cross Afghanistan. Later, Chinese businessmen took silk and jade articles along the route from Zhang Qian to the northwest of China, over mountains and across the Gobi Desert. This route was later called "Silk Road".
2. Magellan
Magellan 15 19 was ordered by the Spanish king to lead an expedition to find the westward route from Spice Islands to east indies. The journey westward across the Atlantic to Brazil was smooth, but then the situation began to deteriorate. When the fleet arrived in the Mariana Islands, local residents attacked them. Magellan was killed in a battle with a tribe on the Philippine island of Makatan.
Contribution: Magellan is a doer. He used his personal practice of sailing around the world to declare to the world that the earth is round.
3. Liu Yutian.
The first professional explorer in the history of China. He used to be a cadre of Urumqi Railway Bureau in Xinjiang. 1May, 984, started hiking on the Great Wall of Wan Li. After more than a year's arduous journey, he became the first person in the world to walk the Great Wall of Wan Li.
Later, he trekked the Silk Road, the Loess Plateau and Lop Nur, Xinjiang, climbed Gelai Mountain and Kunlun Snow Mountain, inspected Shennongjia Savage, Himalayan Snowman and Rongbu Glacier, traveled along the Himalayas and Yarlung Zangbo River, tried to climb Mount Everest, and crossed the five deserts of China, such as Taklimakan and Gurbantonggut, in the Sea of Death three times.
Contribution: Filled one exploration gap after another. He took more than 10,000 black-and-white color photos with his own hands and wrote an adventure diary of more than two million words, covering politics, history, geography, literature, philosophy, art and archaeology.
4. Kyle Poirot.
Born in a tourist family. His father nicolo and his uncle Matteo are Venetian businessmen. They went to China on business in the 65438+60s. 127 1 year, they visited again and took away the young Kyle. They arrived in China and entered the palace to meet the Mongolian ruler Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan.
Contribution: It greatly promoted the navigation in Europe in the15th century.
5.amundsen.
1in June, 903, Amundsen's expedition began to sail to the northwest channel. The whole team camped on King William Island, which goes deep into the Arctic Circle, and spent two winters and another winter on Mackenzie Island. They completed their voyage to the Pacific Ocean in September 1906.
Submission: 19 1 1 year10/0/On October 20th, he got ahead of his British rival Captain Scott and set out from the base at the eastern end of Ross Ice Shelf at191/.