1. Exploration and Colonization
by Carol Setzer
Information about explorers obtained through enchantedlearning.com, text book and web sites
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2. Review - Land Bridge Theory
Bering Strait
When glaciers formed causing the land under the Bering Strait to be exposed,
Asians migrated as they followed food supplies such as the woolly mammoth over the Bering Strait from Asia during the Ice Age. As Earth warmed the strait was again covered with water.

3. Earliest
Explorers

4. Did you know that Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover the New World! Many people do not know that Leif Eriksson arrived in 1001 AD. 500 years prior to Columbus reaching the New World in 1492.
Vikings

5. Leif
Eriksson

6. Viking Long Ships
The combination of a sail, oars (15 on each side), and the adjustable side rudder made the Viking ships swift and maneuverable.

7. Marco Polo set out from Italy. for China in 1271. After
Marco Polo set out from Italy for China in After traveling by ship, foot, horseback, and wagon, he reached China in He journeyed over rough terrain including along the boundary of the Gobi Desert. He observed people using paper money, coal, and gun powder. Soft, beautiful silks were being woven. Tea and spices were staples of the Chinese.

8. When he brought samples of silk, spices and tea back to Europe, traders began to travel the silk road in search of these products. Ideas, skills, and customs were also exchanged. People became aware that the world was larger than their community. Europeans in search of a better way to travel to China began to explore water routes.

9. Marco Polo-Silk Road

10. Portuguese
Explorers

11. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal
Prince Henry of Portugal was born in He gathered sea captains, mapmakers, ship designers, and other experts together and is credited for building the caravel ship with its lateen sail. His goal was to discover a complete water route to Asia in order to obtain riches and avoid the “middle men.”

12. He is most famous for the voyages of discovery that he organized and financed, which eventually led to the rounding of Africa and the establishment of sea routes to the Indies. Although he actually did not sail, his sailors engaged in trading for gold and slaves.

14. Caravel Ships with Lateen Sails
Triangular shaped lateen sails, helped sailors steer against the wind.

15. New Sailing Instruments
Prior to the invention of the astrolabe, magnetic compass, cross staff, and other navigational instruments, sailors depended on the north star and crudely constructed maps for direction and sailing.

16. A magnetic compass works because the Earth is like a giant magnet, surrounded by a huge magnetic field. The Earth has two magnetic poles which lie near the North and South poles.
The magnetic field of the Earth causes a magnetized 'needle' of iron or steel to swing into a north-south position if it is hung from a thread, or if it is stuck through a straw or piece of wood floating in a bowl of water. This instrument helped sailors navigate without using the North Star.

17. Bartolomeu Dias (1457-1500) was a great Portuguese navigator and explorer who explored Africa's
coast. In 1488, Dias led the first European expedition to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, leaving Tagus, Portugal in This breakthrough of circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope opened up lucrative trading routes from Europe to Asia.

18. Vasco da Gama ( ) was a Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, to India (and back) in At that time, many people thought that this was impossible to do because it was assumed that the Indian Ocean was not connected to any other seas.

19. Spanish
Explorers

20. On October 12, 1492, Columbus sighted land
On October 12, 1492, Columbus sighted land. His first landfall was in the Bahamas. When he landed he thought he had reached the Indies in the Far East and named the natives Indians. He was unaware he had landed in the New World.

21. Christopher Columbus ( ) was an Italian explorer who sailed for Spain across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India (in order to
trade for goods). He made a total of four trips to the Caribbean and South America during the years , sailing for King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain. On his first trip, Columbus led an expedition with three ships, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

22. Columbian Exchange New World Europe Received Received Wheat Deadly
New World Europe
Received Received
Columbian
Exchange
Wheat
Rice
Coffee
Horses
Pigs
Cows
Chickens
Deadly
Diseases
Diphtheria
Measles
Smallpox
Malaria
Corn
Potatoes
Peanuts
Squash

23. Columbian
Exchange
New World
received
Old World
received
Customs
Diseases
Ideas

24. Ponce de Leon, a Spanish explorer, sailed to the New World in search of gold and to conquer new land.

26. Ponce de Leon landed at St. Augustine, Florida and claimed it for Spain. Florida means “flowery Easter”.

27. Hernando De Soto arrived on the west coast of Florida on May 30, 1539 with 10 ships carrying over 600 soldiers, priests, and explorers. They spent four years searching for gold and silver,
exploring the area, and brutally attacking native societies, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Creeks, Appalachians, and Choctaws. De Soto died during the explorations and was buried on the banks of the Mississippi River in late June 1542.

28. Ferdinand Magellan ( ) was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth ( ). Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean (the name means that it is a calm, peaceful ocean.)

29. Purpose of Spanish Exploration
God – Missionaries wanted to spread Catholicism to the Native Americans
Gold – Greed for personal and national wealth
Glory – defeat of powerful Native American tribes, claiming land for mother country, adventure

30. Spanish
Explorers

31. French
Explorers

32. French
Exploration

33. Jacques Cartier, a French sailor traveled to the New World in search of gold and other precious metals.

34. Jacques Cartier was looking for a northwest passage to the Far East
Jacques Cartier was looking for a northwest passage to the Far East. He discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River.

35. During his voyage, Jacques Cartier made friends with the Indians of the Iroquois tribe.

36. The Indians helped Jacques Cartier’s sick crew by giving them a tea made from the white cedar tree.

37. Jacques Cartier traded with the Iroquois
Jacques Cartier traded with the Iroquois. He returned to France with furs and two Indian friends.

38. Jacques Cartier named the St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier named the St. Lawrence River. He also named a mountain- Montreal. Today, Montreal is a city in Canada.

39. Help! The French are coming. Save our hides!
Purpose of
French Exploration
Help! The French are coming. Save our hides!
Discovery of the Northwest Passage, fur trading, and claiming land for France

40. English
Explorers

41. John Cabot (about ) was an Italian-born English explorer and navigator. Cabot was born in Italy but moved to England in At the request of King Henry VII of England, Cabot sailed to Canada in Cabot landed near Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island (the exact spot is uncertain) on June 24, Cabot claimed the land for England.

42. Jamestown
Explorers had been landing in America for some time before English settlers arrived in what is now Jamestown, Virginia, in But it was in that spot on the James River that English colonization began and with it, the history of America.

43. The terrible winter of 1609 convinced most of the settlers to abandon their new life, however. Only 60 of the 214 settlers survived this harsh winter, which was also hard on Powhatan's tribe and other neighboring Native Americans. One of the main crops grown by the English settlers was tobacco, which they sold to Native Americans and to people back in England, beginning in Tobacco became a very popular crop because it was easy to grow and because it brought in so much money.

44. Pilgrims
English Puritans who fled England to escape religious persecution. After a 65-day journey from Southampton, England, they landed in Plymouth Harbor on the western side of Cape Cod Bay on December 21, There, under the leadership of William Bradford, they signed the Mayflower Compact, which created their own government.

45. Purpose of English Exploration and Settlement
Claim land for England and and Religious Freedom
We want freedom to worship as we please. Don’t tell us where to go to church.

47. Dutch
Explorers

48. Henry Hudson ( ) was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for Hudson
Hudson was hired by a Dutch company in 1607, to find a waterway from Europe to Asia. Hudson made two trips (in 1607 and 1608), but failed to find a route to China. He could not find the Northwest Passage because there isn’t one.

49. Purpose of Dutch Exploration
Discovery of Northwest Passage, claim land for the Netherlands
Do you know why I couldn’t find the Northwest Passage to Asia?
THERE ISN’T ONE!!!!

50. Early Exploration and Settlements Spain England France Portugal Dutch
Henry Hudson E C C B E A A A A D A D

51. Native Americans (First Americans)
History
Recorded through oral history?
What does this signify?
Trade
Barter economy
Sharing was respectful
Compare this to Europeans…
Land
For all to use
NOT TO BE OWNED!!!!!

52. In the Americas… Exploring for Wealth Explorers find little riches!
Why did Columbus and others sail?
Gold, Spices, riches
Explorers find little riches!
Need to make money, so start farms
Farms need workers, right?
Indian Workers?
Indians had been killed during exploration.
AND, had been wiped out by DISEASE!!
Now where do you look for forced labor?

53. Over in Africa… Power in Africa Slavery in Africa Slave Traders
Not based on $$ or land, but people.
Note how different than Europe – land, gold
Slavery in Africa
It existed! (Gasp!)
Different than later American slavery
Slave Traders
Europeans exchanged technology for slaves
African thought, “Sell my enemies away, gain more power???”
A new market for forced labor is created in the New World

54. Interaction in the Americas
Areas of Settlement
France
Canada, Mississippi River
England
Northern Canada (Hudson Bay)
Eastern Coast of North America
Spain
Florida and Western North America
Caribbean & South America (Not Brazil)
Portugal
Brazil

55. Americas Divided by Europe

56. Interaction in the Americas
English & Spanish
Lots of exploration and immigration to these places
Caribbean Islands, who could say no!?
Native Americans killed for land claims and lose land
DISEASES kill off many Native Americans
French
No large-scale immigration from France
Trapping and trading
Relations with Native Americans often was cooperative, NOT violent.

57. Impact of Columbus and Other Explorers
Columbian Exchange
Trade of items across the Atlantic
Native Americans Decimated
European diseases kill countless NAs
Europeans kill NAs to get their land.
Europeans Get Wealthy
Profits are made
Europeans send more folks to explore/exploit
Africans are Enslaved
Workers are needed on plantations, mines, etc

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