1. Chapter 3 European Exploration in the Americas
The Age of Exploration

2. Vocabulary Colony Turning Point Circumnavigate Columbian Exchange
modifications

3. Who was the first to discover America?
NOT Columubs!
Viking Lief Erikson sailed to Greenland and settled in Newfoundland.
Some believe asians drifted off course and landed on North American soil.

4. Columbus Goal: to reach Asia by sailing West across Atlantic Ocean
Portugal refused to give Columbus money, Spain agreed.
Portugal traveled around horn of Africa
90 men in 3 Ships: Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

5. How did Columbus Sail?

6. “Land HO!” Columbus finds land on October 12
He thought he was in the Indies in Asia
Landed on the Island of Hispaniola

7. Columbus returns to Spain
Gives Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand gifts.
He offers to make the Taino’s (Natives) slaves.
Terrible ruler, brought back to spain in chains, dies.

8. Reasons for Taking over West Indies
GOLD
GOD
GLORY

9. Other Explorers Vasco Nunez de Balboa Spanish explorer
Traveled through Panama to Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer
Goal: to find Atlantic Pacific Route
Killed by fillipinos
His crew Circumnavigated the Globe!

10. Columbian Exchange
Transfer of goods, people, and ideas between Western and Eastern Hemisphere
Negative Exchange:
Diseases, Slavery,
Positive Exchange:
Cows, hogs, domestic animals, food plants, gold