2. Age of Exploration: Essential Questions
Why was there a sudden urge to explore?
Who initiated exploration?

3. Why was there a sudden urge to explore?
Renaissance brought a new way of thinking and new technology
Wanted quicker ways to get to Asia to trade goods
Why? Because land travel was too expensive
3. Fame
4. Spread religion

4. Who started exploration?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Portugal
Born 1394, died 1460
Son of John 1 and Phillipa of Lancaster

5. Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry never journeyed to sea!
He only organized expeditions of sailors to explore West Africa
In 1416, he founded the School of Navigation in Portugal

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Astronomers, geographers, mathematicians studied new methods of traveling by sea.
Trips were planned using new maps and tools and information about wind currents in the Atlantic Ocean

7. On a sheet of notebook paper..
Imagine you have a chance to explore a new place.
Write about what place you want to travel to and how you would travel there.
How long would the journey take?
What would you be looking for once you got there?
What else would you do there?