1. The Age of Exploration
Motives and Explorers

2. Sept. 30, 2015 Warm up Review explorers 1492 Video Incans and Aztecs
Effects of Exploration
Discuss Project
Exit Ticket
Sept. 30, 2015

3. Learning Targets: I will be able to…
Identify the motives for exploration
Compare the motives of different nations
Identify the major explorers and their routes
Understand visually where these people explored
Speculate how the world would be different if this age never occurred
Learning Targets: I will be able to…

4. Why were the Europeans exploring?
What tools made exploring possible?

5. What are some motives for Exploration?
Gold: wealth to be made in the New World (actual gold)
God: Missionary efforts, attempt for Catholics and Protestants to gain new followers
Glory: Bragging rights – wanting to become the biggest, richest, and most powerful nation in the world
What are some motives for Exploration?

6. New Inventions in Exploration
Astrolabe
Compass
Lateen Sail
New Inventions in Exploration

7. What major accomplishments of prince henry spur navigation?
Built school
Sent sailing expeditions around Africa
Helped create maps
What major accomplishments of prince henry spur navigation?

8. Vasco Da Gama Sailed under Portugal
1st to go around the tip of Africa to reach India
Opened new trade routes for Europe

9. Christopher Columbus Sailed under Spain
1st to “discover the New World”
Actually reached the Bahamas
3 Expeditions
Spurred more to visit the New World

10. The Conquistadores- Cortes and Pizarro
Also sailed under Spain
Cortes: Conquered the Aztecs in Mexico
Pizarro: Conquered the Inca in Peru
Most of South and Central America was under control of the Spanish

11. Circumnavigators: Magellan and Drake
Magellan sailed under Spain
Drake sailed under England
Magellan’s crew made it around the world, but he died in the Philippines; Strait of Magellan is named after him
Drake made it around the world

12. Jacques Cartier Sailed under France Explored areas around Canada
Discovered the St. Lawrence Seaway