1. Chapter 2 Section 1
The Age of Exploration

2. Vocabulary Christopher Columbus Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Strait
Circumnavigate

3. Who was the first to discover America?
NOT Columubs!
Viking Lief Erikson sailed to Greenland and settled in Newfoundland.
Evidence found in 1963

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. Reasons for Taking over West Indies
GOLD
GOD
GLORY

8. 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 Phillipinos
His crew Circumnavigated the Globe!

9. 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