Age of Exploration

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H9CDPkNaQQ (Horrible Histories)

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzEWHG9iGI4 (Who really discovered America?)

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjEGncridoQ (Crash Course)

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXGU8zhBLOk (First 5 min)

The Age of Discovery

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. /

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

Background

•Who: ▫ Three major

groups: The Portuguese

and Spanish The English and

the Dutch The Russians Other Europeans

also involved

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…?

Portuguese Exploration• Prince Henry of Portugal (1394-1460)

▫ 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

Here comes Spain…

•Hoping to find a direct route to Asia!•Sent conquistadors to conquer!

▫Hernan Cortes!▫Francisco Pizzaro!

•Created an empire!

Circumnavigation of the Globe• Vasco de Balboa finds Pacific

Ocean while searching for gold in Panama, 1513▫ Distance to Asia unknown

• Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) not supported by Portuguese, uses Spanish support to circumnavigate globe in 1519-1522

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??

Yummy

Without the Columbian Exchange…•Yummy?

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

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 .

Leif Eirksson•Viking

▫Believed to have first discovered the Americas BEFORE Columbus (Around 900-1000 A.D.)

▫http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/leif-eriksson

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

European exporation in the Pacific Ocean, 1519-1780.

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!