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The Explorers

The Explorers. Spain Claims Empire. Would you join a voyage of exploration ?. How many of you would join a voyage of exploration? Why or why not ? What are some of the pros/cons of going?

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The Explorers

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  1. The Explorers Spain Claims Empire

  2. Would you join a voyage of exploration? • How many of you would join a voyage of exploration? Why or why not? • What are some of the pros/cons of going? • What thoughts would have gone through your head as you set sail into an unmapped world, knowing you might come face to face with wild beasts, dangerous cannibals or worse? • What would you have been hoping to gain as a result of your hardships and travels? • How do you think you would have felt when your life of an explorer was over? 

  3. Spain and Portugal Compete • In 1493, to solve dispute between Spain and Portugal, Pope Alexander VI drew a line down the middle of the Atlantic (THE LINE OF DEMARCATION) • All non-Christian lands to the east = Portugal • All non-Christian lands to the west = Spain

  4. The Treaty of Tordesillas • King John II of Portugal is not happy and meets with Spain to move the line • TREATY OF TORDESILLAS (1494): the line is moved 800 miles to the west

  5. Why is this important? This led to an explosion of EXPLORATION!

  6. 3 Main Goals of Exploring 1. To spread Christianity through MISSIONARIES 2. To build an empire

  7. 3. To gain riches and wealth through mercantilism • MERCANTILISM is the process through which more goods leave a country than enter

  8. How do COLONIES help? • 1. Provided mines of gold and silver • 2. Produced goods, including crops • 3. Served as a market for home country

  9. The Explorers

  10. Amerigo Vespucci • Italian • 1501 • Set out to find Asia • Realized New World was not Asia • Described land in detail to mapmaker who called the New World America!

  11. Vasco Nunez de Balboa • Spain • 1513 • Led expedition through Panama to the Pacific • When stood in Pacific, claimed all of the land around for Spain

  12. Ferdinand Magellan • Portugal • 1519 • Wanted to reach Asia by sailing west around South America • Funded by Spain • 5 ships, 240 men • Succeeded and made it to the Philippines

  13. “We were three months and twenty days without…fresh food. We ate biscuit, which was no longer biscuit, but powder of biscuits swarming with worms…We drank…water that had been putrid for many days.” – Antonio Pigafetta

  14. Magellan died in battle in the Philippines…Only one of five ships returned…

  15. Rumors of golden cities attracted Spanish explorers…who ultimately found nothing!

  16. Exit Ticket • If you could go on a journey of exploration today (somewhere you have never been) where would you go? • What research would you do and what preparations would you make? • How would your journey be different from the explorers of the 1500’s?

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