1. History Meeting 4 th Grade Social Studies Mrs. Benedetto

2. Age of Exploration What were Europeans originally looking for by sailing west? What were Europeans originally looking for by sailing west? A new sea route to India A new sea route to India

3. Age of Exploration What was a type of ship used by the Portuguese to find a trade route by water? Caravel

4. Age of Exploration What continent would Europeans have to sail around to make it to India for their spices? What continent would Europeans have to sail around to make it to India for their spices? Africa Africa

5. Age of Exploration Who first began navigation schools and funded voyages to find the sea route to India? Who first began navigation schools and funded voyages to find the sea route to India? Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator

6. Age of Exploration What country was he from? Portugal

7. Age of Exploration Who was the first Portuguese explorer to make it around the tip of Africa? Bartolomeu Dias 1487

8. Age of Exploration What was the tip of Africa called? Cape of Good Hope

9. Age of Exploration Who was the first Portuguese explorer to make it around the tip of Africa all the way to India? Vasco da Gama 1497

10. Age of Exploration Who was the first European explorer to propose that a sea route to the East Indies could be found by sailing West across the Atlantic Ocean? Christopher Columbus

11. AFRICA Spices ASIA AUSTRALIA EUROPE NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA He was also the first European to reach the Americas and set up trade with the natives. Where did he think he was? Where did he really land? Guess who sailed the ocean-blue in 1492?

12. Answer He thought he arrived in India. He thought he arrived in India. He really landed in the Caribbean Islands of North America. He really landed in the Caribbean Islands of North America.

13. Age of Exploration What country funded Christopher Columbus’s expeditions? Spain

14. How many voyages did Columbus make back and forth across the Atlantic? 4

15. AFRICA Spices ASIA AUSTRALIA EUROPE NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA Who was the first European (Spanish) explorer to KNOW he reached a “new world” shortly after Columbus resulting in the “new” continents to be named after him? North me? Central me? South me? Sounds good to me! Amerigo Vespucci, 1497

16. Age of Exploration What were the 3 main reasons that Europeans continued exploring and settling the Americas? What were the 3 main reasons that Europeans continued exploring and settling the Americas? Glory, God and Gold Glory, God and Gold

17. AFRICA Spices ASIA AUSTRALIA EUROPE NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA Who was the first man to circumnavigate the whole globe? (That means he made it all the way around.) Ferdinand Magellan, 1519

18. Discoveries & ‘firsts’ of the Magellan expedition: 1 st 1 st to circumnavigate the globe 1 st 1 st to go around South America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans 1 st 1 st Europeans to observe these new animals: "camels without humps (llama & alpaca), “black geese" which had to be skinned instead of plucked (penguins) 1 st 1 st Europeans to find new galaxies only visible from the Southern Hemisphere 1 st 1 st to approximately measure the size of the Earth: over 43,000 miles 1 st 1 st to realize the need for an international dateline. When they arrived back in Spain, they realized that they were a day off the calendar from everyone else. This phenomenon caused great excitement at the time, to the extent that a special delegation was sent to the Pope to explain it to him. Be ready to answer a constructed response about Magellan.