New World Explorers

Overview

Motives For Exploration Curiosity Religion National Pride Money Fame Foreign Goods Faster, Cheaper trade Routes

Ok the last slide is a little on the simple side so explain what were the motivators for Exploration?

First Guys The First Explorers –Eskimos & Aleuts (Native Americans) –Japanese & Chinese Fishermen –West Africans (Olmec Legend) –European Vikings Thorfinn Karlsefni –mapped part of North American coast –Tried to settle Newfoundland

The Vikings Eric the Red (c. 960) -brought family from Norway to Iceland, then settled in Greenland Leif Eriksson (c. 1000) -landed in present-day Newfoundland -only remained three years

EXPLORATION & CONQUEST The European Explorers / 15 & 16 th centuries –Portugal – the African Coast & Route Prince Henry the Navigator –30 voyages along the African Coast Bartholomeu Dias – Cape Good Hope 1488 Vasco De Gama – Calicut, India 1498 Pedro Cabal – East South America 1500 –The Brazilian Mistake Colonies in West Africa, the Persian Gulf, Macao, and Brazil

Christopher Columbus Read Marco Polo’s Travels – it sparked his imagination Idea: travel West to get East

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Christopher Columbus Read Marco Polo’s Travels – it sparked his imagination Idea: travel West to get East Portugal said “NO” but Spain said “YES” October 12, 1492 Columbus lands on a small island in the Bahamas Columbus dies never knowing he did not land in India

EXPLORATION & CONQUEST Motivational Factors European Exploration in the Americas 2. Establishment of new trade routes and national claims of territories Existing routes were expensive and dangerous due to pirates & wars Monopolized by Italian merchants who functioned as middlemen in trade between Europe & Asia

Conflict Over The Americas *Line of Demarcation -Pope Alexander Vi draws a line 300 miles west of the Azores Islands *Treaty of Tordesillas -Moved the Line of Demarcation 650 miles further west

The Three G’s of Spanish Conquest Gold Glory God

Spanish Conquistadors Juan Ponce de Leon –1513- explored and claimed Florida Francisco Pizarro –1533 -conquered the Inca empire in South America Hernando Cortez – conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico

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The French: Early Exploration Giovanni Verrazano sailed the east coast of North America Jacque Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed the Grand Bank Samuel de Champlian founded Quebec and established the colony of New France

The French: Later Exploration Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette – explored up the Mississippi River Robert La Salle – claimed and named the Louisiana Territory

The English: Better Late than Never John Cabot -tried to find route to China only found Newfoundland Henry Hudson -explored Hudson Bay

Who Claimed What? Russia -Alaska Portugal -Brazil France -Most of Canada -Louisiana Territory England -The east coast of N. America from Spanish Florida to French Canada Spain -The west coast of the Americas from northern California to Tierra del Fuego