1. Bellringer Answer the following questions!!!
Why do people go exploring?
Who are some modern day explorers you can think of?
Are the risks of exploring worth the gains?

2. Chapter 6: The Age of Exploration
6:1 – Exploration and Expansion
Chapter 6: The Age of Exploration

3. Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (1930- ) was the first person to walk on the moon.
Upon his first step on the moon, Armstrong said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

4. Christopher Columbus
( ) was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.
On his first trip, Columbus led an expedition with three ships, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

5. Ponce de Leon
(1460?-1521) was a Spanish explorer and soldier who was the first European to set foot in Florida.
Ponce de Leon was searching for the legendary fountain of youth and other riches.

6. Jacques Cousteau
( ) was a French undersea explorer, environmentalist, and innovator.
In 1943, Cousteau invented the aqualung, a breathing apparatus that supplied oxygen to divers and allowed them to stay underwater for several hours.

7. Marco Polo
( ) was an Italian voyager and merchant who was one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia through China, he spent about 24 years traveling.

8. Motives
Why???
Europeans were fascinated by Asia and wanted a trade route by sea
Desire for wealth led to European Expansion
Merchants, adventurers, and gov’t officials hoped to find precious metals and expand in the East.
Religious – to spread Catholicism to native peoples.

9. Means
How did they do it???
Monarchs had expanded power and had the money to provide explorers.
New technology such as:
Portolani: records showing coastlines and distances between ports
Cartography (Mapmaking & Compasses)

10. The Portuguese Trading Empire
Portugal took the lead in European Exploration
Prince Henry the Navigator led ships southward to along the western coast of Africa
Discovered Gold

11. Vasco de Gama
Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East.
Sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, to India in

12. The Voyages of Columbus
Goal: To reach Asia by sailing West.
Financed by Queen Isabella of Spain .
October 1492, reached Cuba’s coastline
**He died believing he had reached Asia – explored the Caribbean Islands and Honduras**

13. A Line of Demarcation
Spain and Portugal fear that the other may claim their newly discovered territory.
Line of Demarcation: an imaginary line that divided their spheres of influence.
Treaty of Tordesialles: (1894) The line would extend from north to south through the Atlantic Ocean and easternmost part of the South American Continent.
Spain got control of Africa, Portugal the America’s

14. Race to the America’s
Explorers from many countries race to the America’s
Ventian John Cabot: New England Coastline for England
Florentine Amerigo Vaspucci: Several Voyages exploring the “America’s”

15. The Spanish Empire Conquistadors:
Spanish conquerors of the America’s
Achieved great success due guns & determination.
1550 – Spain controlled Northern Mexico
Francisco Pizarro took control of the Incan Empire and held it under Spanish Control for 30 years.

16. Colonial Administration
Queen Isabella declared Native American as her subjects.
Spanish word Indio’s (Inhabitants of the Indies)
Native Americans were put to work on sugar plantations and in gold & silver mines.

17. Harsh treatment takes it’s toll…
Forced labor, starvation, and disease took many natives lives.
Small pox, measles, and typhus
In Mexico, Population dropped from 25 million in 1529 to 1 million in 1630

18. 3-2-1 Note-Taking Strategy As you read the text list:
3 Things you found out or didn’t know
2 Interesting Things
1 Question You Still Have