1. Age of Exploration
aQQ (Horrible Histories)
GI4 (Who really discovered America?)
Q (Crash Course)
LOk (First 5 min)

2. Europe’s perspective on the world

3. The Age of Discovery

4. Understanding WHO, WHY & HOW
In your groups, you will get an envelope filled with descriptions of people and how and why the explored and where they went. It is your job, as a group to categorize these statements into..
Why people wanted to explore
How people were able to explore
People who were set out to explore & their accomplishments
Other (something that doesn’t fit into the other 3)
Once you have finished, answer the questions on the sheet provided. /

5. Explorers…Just to name a few…
Christopher Columbus
Leif Erikson
Vasco De Gama
Henry the Navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco de Balboa

6. Background Who: Three major groups: The Portuguese and Spanish
The English and the Dutch
The Russians
Other Europeans also involved

7. Portugal goes first!
First European nation to make attempts at exploration
Why them?
What was discovered from these expeditions?
Spices!!
Gold!!
Who made these expeditions…?
1. A lot of historians still debate why but one factor was Prince Henry the Navigator! He took a strong interest in exploration and sponsored the expeditions!!

8. Portuguese Exploration
Prince Henry of Portugal ( )
Promoted exploration of west African coast
Established fortified trading posts
1488 Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, enters Indian Ocean basin
Storms, restless crew force return
Vasco de Gama reaches India by this route, 1497
By 1500, a trading post at Calicut
Discovery of Azores, Madeiras Islands
Acquisition of land to plant sugarcane

9. Here comes Spain… Hoping to find a direct route to Asia!
Sent conquistadors to conquer!
Hernan Cortes!
Francisco Pizzaro!
Created an empire!

10. Circumnavigation of the Globe
Vasco de Balboa finds Pacific Ocean while searching for gold in Panama, 1513
Distance to Asia unknown
Ferdinand Magellan ( ) not supported by Portuguese, uses Spanish support to circumnavigate globe in
Sails through Strait of Magellan at southern tip of South America
Crew assailed by scurvy, only 35 of 250 sailors survive journey
Magellan killed in local political dispute in Philippine Islands

11. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Believed Earth was smaller
Estimated Japan approximately 2,500 miles west of Canaries (actually 10,000 miles)
Fernando and Isabel of Spain underwrite voyage
Discovers Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola (DR)
SO…what were some effects of exploration??
Colombus legacy is a bit threatened but in his time, Columbus was an inspiration!!
Many explorers followed in his wake
The land that they were exploring was not Asia but a “New world” that had never been see by Europeans.

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13. Without the Columbian Exchange…
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14. Exchange of goods, plants, animals, and also diseases that followed Columbus’s initial connection of Europe and the Americas!!
Agricultural staples such as potatoes and corn were introduced to Europe, while wheat production was brought to the Americas. Animals such as horses, sheep, goats and cattle were brought o the Americas, while Europe received the turkey and squirrel.
Diseases were also exchanged, with the Europeans spreading small pox, typhus, influenza, and measles among the Native Americans.

15. Finally…The English, Dutch and French
England explored Northwest India
America – Jamestown, Virginia was founded!
Then more English colonies…
Dutch set up colonies in Asia and the Americas
French were last…but colonized Canada

16. Slavery Begins
Because of sugar cane plantations flourishing in the Caribbean and South America, more workers were needed!
In 1518 the first wave of African slaves were brought to the Americas .
Europeans had quite the sweet tooth!! And wanted that sugar BAD!

17. Leif Eirksson
Viking
Believed to have first discovered the Americas BEFORE Columbus (Around A.D.)
eriksson

18. Columbus’s Voyages: Tried Three Times, Never Reached Asia

19. European exporation in the Pacific Ocean, 1519-1780.

20. What you should know..
European exploration was facilitated by the revitalization of interregional connections between Europe, Asia and Middle East.
Portugal was the first European nation to make substantial efforts at exploring and creating a trading empire!
Columbus, sailing for the Spanish, discovered the New World, establishing Spain as a world power!
Other European nations followed the example of Spain in exploring North America!
European exploration established those nations as the dominant world powers for the next 400 years!