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The world known to Europeans 500 years ago

The world known to Europeans 500 years ago. Europeans. Who are the Europeans? Which Countries are part of Europe? Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Luxemburg, Britain, Ireland Scotland, Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, Switzerland. Europeans. Knew almost nothing about other countries.

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The world known to Europeans 500 years ago

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  1. The world known to Europeans 500 years ago

  2. Europeans • Who are the Europeans? • Which Countries are part of Europe? • Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Luxemburg, Britain, Ireland Scotland, Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, Switzerland.

  3. Europeans • Knew almost nothing about other countries. • Knew a little about Asia and the far east • (India, China, Japan) • Almost nothing about entire continents. • Africa, Australia, North America, South America, Antarctica.

  4. Vikings • Vikings may have been the first Europeans to visit Canada. • There was also “St. Brendan the navigator”

  5. St. Brendan the navigator” • Year 550 St. Brendan the navigator set out with monks from Ireland • 17 year journey

  6. Writing in Many old text about the voyage. • Islands on maps West of Iceland Called St Brendan.

  7. Passed by crystals that rose up to the sky

  8. Rose up on the back of sea monsters

  9. They explored until they came to a great river that divided the land.

  10. Did it happen? • 1976 the voyage was recreated, proof that is was possible • There is a stone carving discovered in west in West Virginia. It dates 500 years old and in the old Irish language. • Viking Sagas include the monks were in Iceland and Greenland before they arrived.

  11. The earliest proven European explorers were the Vikings.

  12. A Viking Sailing Ship

  13. Much of what we know today about their adventures comes from sagas. Many artifacts

  14. L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland

  15. Viking settlement • L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. • 1000

  16. Farm Under the Sand, Western Settlement, Greenland

  17. Historians have come to believe that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach the Americas, about 1,000 years ago.

  18. A Viking named Eric the Red and his crew set sail from Iceland and landed on an island that he named Vinland.

  19. It was called Vinland because of the abundance of green vines found there.

  20. Twenty years later, Leif Ericson founded the island now called Newfoundland.

  21. Fierce battles took place between the Indians and the Vikings land disputeTrade dispute

  22. The Vikings eventually abandoned their settlements in North America.

  23. Vikings • May be the place Icelandic Norseman Leifur Eiríksson, referred to as Vinland around the year 1000.

  24. The next wave of Europeans500 years later

  25. Technical advances made it possible for the Europeans to begin exploration. Compass Maps Astrolabe Ships

  26. Compass • A compass is a magnetic device using a needle to indicate the direction of the magnetic north. • Invented by the Chinese seventeen hundred years ago

  27. Maps • Cartography the art of making an accurate map made it possible to calculate a journey.

  28. Astrolabe

  29. Ships • Caravel

  30. Marco Polo • Traveled to China • Brought back spices and silks to Italy

  31. Marco Polo • Marco Polo was a Venetian explorer and merchant whose account of his travels in Asia was the primary source for the European image of the Far East until the late 19th century.

  32. Reasons for exploration • Great profit in the trade of goods to the far east. India and China • Spices silks, jewellery, jade, cotton

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