Europe’s Age of Exploration Chart
Objectives Identify key European explorers of the Americas and Asia, and explain the goals and consequences of exploration on society
Europe's Age of Exploration Chart Use the index in the back of the book and your homework to find the information. Begin work on the chart.
Europe's Age of Exploration Name Country (s) Represented Year (s) Accomplishments Prince Henry (the Navigator) Portugal 1419 Brought together experts who extended the art of navigation/ set up a school of Navigation Bartholomeu Dias Became first European to sail around southern tip of Africa (Calls it the Cape of Good Hope) 1488
Europe's Age of Exploration Name Country (s) Represented Year (s) Accomplishments Vasco da Gama Christopher Columbus First European to sail around the Southern tip of Africa, into the Indian Ocean and on to India Credited for Discovering America
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain Pedro Cabral Pope Alexander VI Prince Henry Bartholomeu Dias Vasco da Gama Christopher Columbus Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain Pedro Cabral Pope Alexander VI Amerigo Vespucci Vasco Nunez de Balboa Ferdinand Magellan Hernan Cortés Montezuma (Moctezuma) II Francisco Pizarro *Atahualpa *Hernando de Soto *Francisco Coronado Sir Francis Drake Robert de la Salle (1682) *Not in the book. Leave a space
Europe's Age of Exploration Name Country (s) Represented Year (s) Accomplishments Atahualpa Inca Empire (Peru) 1532-1533 Inca Emperor Hernando de Soto Spain 1536 First European to explore Florida and the Southeastern US. Francisco Coronado 1540-1542 First European to explore North America's Southwest.