1. Agenda: Warm Up Final Presentations The Explorers Recap
Moving Picture Show
Atlantic Slave Trade & Columbian Trade
HW: Slave Trade WS
Agenda:

2. Warm Up
List a few things all the explorers wanted to find as a result of their voyages

3. The explorers: an overview

4. Prince Henry the Navigator
Main initiator of the Age of Exploration
Portuguese Prince
Very wealthy
First to sail down coast of Africa, didn’t make it far
Inspired Dias and da Gama and other great explorers

5. Bartolomeu Dias
1488, manages to sail around the southern tip of Africa, eliminating the land trades routes through the Middle East.
He wants to go to India, but the crew refuses.

6. Vasco Da Gama Portuguese (1497-1499)
Sailed around the south of Africa to India
First person to link Europe to India and the East

7. Francisco Pizarro 1524-1541, Spanish Conquistador
Sailed from Spain to South America
Conquered the Incan Empire

8. Jacques Cartier
Originally set sail from France to locate an Asian trade route in 1534.
He enters North America through Canada, and sails to the Great Lakes.
No trade route is found, but they would attempt settlement in the 1540s.

9. Hernando Cortez Spanish, 1511-1547
Conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico
Began Spanish colonization of the New World

10. Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese, 1519-1522
He died on the voyage in the Philippines
His crew finishes voyage and is first to circumnavigate the globe (sail around the world)
5 Ships with 270 Men leave, 1 ship and 18 men return. None of the original captains made it back

11. Francis Drake English Explorer, 1577-1580
Took 3 years and successfully circumnavigated the globe (2nd person in history after Magellan.
In 1588 helps defeat the Spanish Armada as it attacks the English Navy.
Francis Drake