Question: Who was the father of the person who led the first expedition to reach the continent Buddhism spread by sailing west across the ocean along eastern Russia?

explorers flying the flag of spain reached the new world beginning in 1492 with the discovery of america by christopher columbus. spanish expeditions colonized and explored vast areas in north and south america following the grants of the pope (contained in the 1493 papal bull inter caetera) and rights contained in the 1494 treaty of tordesillas and 1529 treaty of zaragoza. these formal acts gave spain the exclusive rights to colonize the entire western hemisphere (excluding eastern brazil), including all of the west coast of north america. the first european expedition to actually reach the west coast was led by the spaniard vasco núñez de balboa, who reached the pacific coast of panama in 1513. in an act of enduring historical importance, balboa claimed the pacific ocean for the spanish crown, as well as all adjoining land and islands. this act gave spain exclusive sovereignty and navigation rights over the entire west coast of north america. <SEP> The Portuguese Vasco da Gama, accompanied by Nicolau Coelho and Bartolomeu Dias, is the first European to reach India by an all - sea route from Europe. <SEP> He rose in the ranks of the military Order of Santiago. Vasco da Gama's father was Estêvão da Gama, who had served in the 1460s as a knight of the household of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu. Estêvão da Gama was appointed "alcaide-mór" (civil governor) of Sines in the 1460s, a post he held until 1478; after that he continued as a receiver of taxes and holder of the Order's commendas in the region. <SEP> The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, tr. Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika  listen (help·info)) commonly referred to as Soviet Russia or simply as Russia, was a sovereign state in 1917–22, the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922–91 and a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation in 1990–91. The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts. Russians formed the largest ethnic group. Within the USSR, it bordered the Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR to the west. To the west it bordered Finland, Norway and Poland; and to the south, China, Mongolia and North Korea whilst bordering the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Black sea and Caspian Sea to the south. To the south it bordered the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Kazakh SSRs. <SEP> The Tangut Empire was especially efficient in such efforts; exploiting the then newly invented block printing, and with the full support of the government (contemporary sources describe the Emperor and his mother personally contributing to the translation effort, alongside sages of various nationalities), the Tanguts took mere decades to translate volumes that had taken the Chinese centuries to render. [citation needed] In Asia, the spread of Buddhism led to large-scale ongoing translation efforts spanning well over a thousand years. <SEP> rodrigo de jerez was one of the spanish crewmen who sailed to the americas on the santa maria as part of christopher columbus's first voyage across the atlantic ocean in 1492. he is credited with being the first european smoker.