2. Exploration Scavenger Hunt
Find the following on your map in your atlas on pg. 38
for each one find and note where they start, the date, the route and their final destination
B.Dias 1487
Columbus 1492
De Gama 1497
Magellan 1519
Vespucci 1498, 1499 &1501
You don’t need to write anything down or map it. But some individual will be selected at random to draw the route on the board

4. A time period when Europeans began exploring and colonizing the rest of the World
Improvements to mapmaking (cartography) shipbuilding, rigging (system of ropes, cables, or chains employed to support a ship's masts) and navigation made exploration possible
A period of time when Ruropeans began exploring the rest of the world

6. Bartolomeu Dias Navigator from Portugal
found sea route to Indian Ocean
Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope (southern tip of Africa
his discoveries allowed trade to go from Europe to Asia by sea instead of the Silk Road (controlled by Islamic Empire

8. Vasco da Gama Navigator from Portugal landed in India in 1498
extremely important trade route for spices

10. Ferdinand Magellan 1st round-the-world voyage
proof that the world was round
Magellan himself didn’t make it, was killed in the Phillippines

14. Columbus sailed west (thinking it would be a quicker route to Asia instead of around Africa)
Found the Caribbean which lead to the European discovery of the Americas

16. Spain quickly conquered native lands & created colonies
Spain made huge amounts of money from raw goods, stolen gold, and enslaved natives and Africans - Spain became a huge super power