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Notable Early European Explorers. Age of Exploration Notes Day 2. European Exploration Routes. Remember…. Due to new technology and a drive for wealth, countries began competing with each other through exploration and conquest!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3fYF6YvesA.
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Notable Early European Explorers Age of Exploration Notes Day 2
Remember… • Due to new technology and a drive for wealth, countries began competing with each other through exploration and conquest!!!! • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3fYF6YvesA
What countries were most influential in early exploration? • Portugal, using money from Prince Henry the Navigator. • They hoped to find gold and spread Christianity in the 1400s. • Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the tip of Africa • Vasco da Gama sailed all the way to India. • He returned with riches, inspired many other explorations.
What did Columbus do? • Christopher Columbus sailed for Spain in 1492. • Believed his entire life he had reached the Indies like the Portuguese explorers. • In the years after the voyage, the Columbian Exchange begins. • Products, plants, animals, and disease travel between East and West Hemisphere. • Spain becomes a world power, many Native Americans die from disease.
Key Question • Was disease that wiped out the Native Americans inevitable (unavoidable)? • Was the discovery of the New World inevitable?
Who were some other European Explorers? • Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, and the first to think that the new land wasn’t part of the Indies. • Vasco de Balboa(Spanish) crossed Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean in 1513. • Ferdinand Magellan(Portugal) sailed around the tip of South America and to the Philippines. • His crew was the first to make it around the entire world. • Mr. Bodnar is obsessed with him.
How about an explorer rap song! • http://flocabulary.com/age-of-exploration/
What role did slavery play in exploration? • Slaves were part of the triangular trade. • Merchants shipped goods to Africa in exchange for slaves. • The Middle Passage was the second stage of the trade, where slaves were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas. • From 1750-1800, 10 million Africans make the journey.
Let’s take a crash course on the Discovery of the New World!! • Notable Explorers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjEGncridoQ&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=21 • The Columbian Exchange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=23