1. Age of Exploration
1400’s => 1800’s

2. Why did the Europeans seek to trade with the Far East?
Essential Question #1

3. Prince Henry “The Navigator”
Portugal
1424
Began and funded sea navigation
Never left Portugal

4. Bartholomeu Dias Portugal 1487
Sailed to the Cape of Storms, 1st European to sail around Africa
Cape of Storms/Cape of Good Hope

5. Vasco Da Gama Portugal 1497-1499
1st European to reach India by an all sea route
India

6. Christopher Columbus Spain 1492, 1493, 1498, and 1502
Discovered can go west to get to the east
Rediscovered the Americas?
Began the exploitation of the Americas?
West Indies

7. Pedro Alvarez Cabral Portugal 1500
Took control of trade in the Indian Ocean from Arabs
India, Indian Ocean & Brazil

8. What was the significance of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Essential Question #2

9. Amerigo Vespucci Portugal 1501 Cartographer
Charted the east coast of the Americas
Martin Waldseemuller, a German map maker named the Americas after him

10. Vasco Nunez de Balboa Spain 1509-1513
1st European to cross Panama to see the Pacific Ocean
Panama and the South Sea

11. Hernan Cortes
Spain
1519
Conquistador
Destroyed the Aztecs
Mexico

13. What allowed the Europeans to impose their will on the indigenous peoples of the world?
Essential Question #3

14. Ferdinand Magellan Spain 1519-1522
1st expedition to circumnavigate the world
Strait of Magellan, Pacific Ocean, and the Philippines

15. Magellan started in Spain
Died in the Philippines
His expedition returned to Spain

16. Francisco Pizarro Spain 1531-1532 Conquistador
Destroyed the Incas in Peru
Peru

17. Jacques Cartier France 1535-1536 Claimed eastern Canada for France
Quebec

18. Francisco de Orellana Spain 1541-1543 Explored the Amazon
Named the Amazon and Amazon River
Amazon River & Amazon Rainforest

19. Willem Barents Netherlands 1596-1597 Looked for a Northeast Passage
Barents Sea

20. Henry Hudson (Part I) Netherlands 1609 Looked for a Northwest Passage
Hudson River & New Amsterdam

21. Henry Hudson (Part II) England 1610 Looked for a Northwest Passage
Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait

22. What products did the Europeans introduce to the Americas?
Essential Question #4

23. What products did the Native Americans share with the Europeans?
Essential Question #5

24. What products did the Asians introduce to the Europeans and Americans?
Essential Question #6

25. What products did the Africans introduce to the Europeans and Americans?
Essential Question #7