1. The Age of Exploration
Chapter 3

2. Exploration and Technology
Chapter 3
Lesson 1

3. A Rush of New Ideas When: What: Merchants wanted: Problems: 1400’s
Renaissance
Merchants wanted:
Asian goods: spicies and silk
Problems:
Incorrect maps
Lack of technology
Dangerous journey

4. The World Awaits Person: What He did:
Prince Henry of Portugal
What He did:
Opened a school of navigation
Results made ocean exploration possible
Better ships
Maps
Navigation tools

5. The Business of Exploring
Sailor:
Christopher Columbus
Goal:
Sail West to Asia
What he needed
Money for ships, crew, and supplies
Solution
King & Queen of Spain agreed to help

6. Two Worlds Meet Where He Landed: Where he believed he landed
Island in the Caribbean
Where he believed he landed
Asia
Where he actually landed
Island in Bahamas: San Salvador
Return to Spain
Treated like heroes and inspired others to explore

7. A Changing World
Chapter 3 Lesson 2

8. England Explores Explorer: Thought he found Asia
John Cabot
Year: 1497
Thought he found Asia
Actually landed on the coast of present-day New Foundland and Labrador

9. A New Map of the World Explorer: Where he sailed:
Amerigo Vespucci
Where he sailed:
South American coast
Realized he was on lands not yet known to Europeans
Not in Asia…proved Columbus wrong
North and South American were named after him

10. Reaching the Pacific Explorer: What he Did: Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Year: 1513
What he Did:
Crossed the Isthmus of Panama and reached the Pacific Ocean

11. A New View of The World Explorer: Named the Pacific Ocean What he Did:
Ferdinand Magellan
Named the Pacific Ocean
Pacific means “peaceful”
What he Did:
His sailors were the first to travel around the world
What happened to Magellan?
Died in a battle in the Philippine Islands, so he didn’t make it all the way around the world

12. Spanish Explorations
Chapter 3 Lesson 3

13. The Spanish Explore Florida
Explorer:
Juan Ponce De Leon
Set out to find the Fountain of Youth (he had no such luck)
He did land in Florida and claimed it for Spain

14. Early Conquistadors Explorer:
Hernando Cortes
Conquered the Aztecs and built Mexico City

15. Early Conquistadors Explorer:
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Set out to find the Seven Cities of Gold (He had no such luck)
He did explore the
south-west and claimed
the lands for Spain

16. Expeditions Continue Explorer:
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered the Inca empire and took the lands for Spain

17. Expeditions Continue Explorer:
Hernando de Soto
He explored the south-east and claimed the lands for
Spain

18. Missionaries to America
In Europe there was disagreements over religion with the Catholic Church
To gain new followers, convert Native Americans, and to share in the wealth, the Catholic Church sent missionaries to the New World

19. Other Nations Explore
Chapter 3 Lesson 4

20. The Northwest passage What was it?
A short cut to Asia
European nations wanted to gain wealth and power

21. Giovanni da Verrazano
Looking for the Northwest Passage ( didn’t find it)
What he did:
Searched coastlines of North America
Met many Native
American tribes

22. Jacques Cartier Looking for the Northwest Passage ( didn’t find it)
What he did:
Claimed land around the St. Lawrence River for
France

23. Henry Hudson
Went on 4 voyages looking for the Northwest Passage ( didn’t find it)
What he did:
Sailed through the Arctic Ocean
Claimed the Hudson River Valley for Dutch
Claimed the Hudson Bay for England
What happened to Hudson?
His crew mutinied and left him and 8 others adrift on a boat in the Artic…he was never seen again!