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Explorers and Explorations

Explorers and Explorations. C 17 S. 1 & 2. Explorers sailed around the southern tip of Africa looking for a route to China & India. Bartholomeu Dias Vasco da Gama. Toscanelli’s Map 1474. http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/LMwebpages/252.html. Navigation.

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Explorers and Explorations

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  1. Explorers and Explorations C 17 S. 1 & 2

  2. Explorers sailed around the southern tip of Africa looking for a route to China & India. • Bartholomeu Dias • Vasco da Gama

  3. Toscanelli’s Map 1474 http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/LMwebpages/252.html

  4. Navigation • Science of planning and directing the route of a ship

  5. Arab Merchants controlled the land routes to China and India in the 1300s and 1400s?

  6. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal set up a school of navigation.

  7. Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias -first European to sail around the tip of Africa. • Named Cape of Storms • Renamed Cape of Good Hope by King John II

  8. China • Explored seas between 1405 & 1433 • Indian Ocean • East coast of Africa

  9. Queen Isabella financed Columbus’s voyage to reach India.

  10. Portugal was given control of trade in Africa in the 1450’s.

  11. Spain was given control of lands to the west • Portugal was given control on lands to the east • Portugal and Spain met and gave Portugal could control Brazil

  12. Portugal sponsored Vasco da Gama’s trip around Africa in 1498 • Spain sponsored Magellan’s trip around the world in 1519

  13. Da Gama reached India in May 1498.

  14. Spain and the Dutch traded in Canton, China. • Portugal traded in Macau, China.

  15. European explorers went to the Indies for Pepper. • Pepper only grew in India and Java.

  16. Ferdinand Magellan was the first attempt to sail around the world. He set sail from Portugal in September 1519 with five ships. • Magellan was killed in the Philippines.

  17. Only 18 of the 265 men completed the journey. • The journey took 3 years and proved the world is round, there is more water than land on Earth.

  18. Four Continents were explored by Spain, Portugal and Italy. The West Indies India and the Philippines South America Africa

  19. First navigation instrument • compass

  20. Vocabulary • Navigation • Exploration • Expedition • Native • Strait

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