2. What was the Age of Discovery? A time period when Europeans began to explore the rest of the world Improvements in mapmaking, shipbuilding, and navigation made this possible Why explore??? Find new routes to Asia Find new lands and claim them for your country Find new supplies of resources to benefit your country Spread Christianity

5. Prince Henry of Portugal 1418: Opened the 1 st School of Navigation which trained future explorers Go, sail along the coast of Africa! Find a route to Asia! Let the Age of Discovery begin!

6. Bartolomeu Dias 1488 Sailed along the west coast of Africa all the way to the Cape of Good Hope 1 st to reach the Indian Ocean Discovered a route between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

9. It’s stormy, I think I will call it the Cape of Storms!

10. Vasco Da Gama 1497 Rounded the Cape of Good Hope 1498 Landed in India A new route between Europe and Asia

12. Ferdinand Magellan 1519-1522 1 st to circumnavigate or sail around the world Proved for certain that the world was round Did not actually make it back, was killed in the Philippines

16. Christopher Columbus 1492 Born in Italy Thought he could find a sea route to Asia by sailing westward rather than around Africa Landed in the Bahamas Thought he was in Indonesia (East Indies), so he called the people Indians. Oops!

18. Effects of Columbus’ “Discovery” The Columbian Exchange- A massive exchange of plants and animals between the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) AND the New World (Americas) The Atlantic Slave Trade as part of the Triangular Trade

21. Did people explore the world before the Age of Discovery? Yes, but they mostly traveled by land. Marco Polo traveled from Italy (Europe) to China. Ibn Battuta (Muslim Arab) traveled from Morocco throughout Africa, Middle East, and far east Asia Not all traveled by land, the Vikings, like Leif Erikson traveled by sea, but they didn’t travel all the way from Europe (they came from Greenland and Iceland)

23. Other Explorers Australia: James Cook, Abel Tasman, Robert Burke, and William Wills Africa: Johannes Rebmann, Richard Burton, John Speke, Henry Stanley, and David Livingstone North and South Poles: Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen South America: The Spanish Conquistadors- Hernando Cortes, Juan Ponce De Leon, Francisco Vasquez De Coronado, and Francisco Pizarro North America: Henry Hudson, Sieur De La Salle, and Lewis and Clark