Europe’s Age of Exploration

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Europe’s Age of Exploration Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYSCWpFKBo

Seeking A Passage to the East Trade in silk, spices and teas was big business in Europe. The Ottoman Empire controlled most of the trade routes and were not always friendly to foreigners. Finding passage by sea became very important.

“In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Christopher Columbus

John Cabot (Giovanni Cabotto) An Italian sailor hired by King Henry VII and given a Letters Patent to acquire new territory. Was convinced that the North Sea had a passage to Asia.

Mighty Vikings Erik Thorvalson (Erik the Red) – Discovered Greenland during his exile. Leif Erikson – Believed to be the 1st European to land in North America (year 1000), landed in Labrador and Newfoundland. Freydis Eriksdotter – Female explorer set up a colony in L’Anse aux Meadows.

Vocabulary Colonize: to settle and control new lands eg. England colonized North America. Imperialism: Political policy to control a region or nation. Monopoly: complete control of a good or service. Heathen: anyone non-Christian Infidel: a “non-believer”, not Christian

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