COLUMBUS -BORN 1451 IN THE PORT CITY OF GENOA, ITALY -LATER SETTLED IN PORTUGAL -STUDIED MARCO POLO'S WRITINGS ABOUT ASIA AND DREAMS OF FAME AND RICHES TO BE HAD IN ASIA -BY THE 1480'S MOST PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT THE WORLD WAS IN FACT ROUND, BUT THAT ASIA WAS TO FAR AWAY TO REACH BY SAILING WEST

COLUMBUS -FIRST APPROACHED KING JOHN OF PORTUGAL TO FINANCE A TRIP WEST TO ASIA -JOHN BELIEVED THAT ASIA WAS MORE THAN 10,000 MILES FROM EUROPE. NO SHIP COULD MAKE SUCH A JOURNEY -PRESENTED HIS PLAN TO FERDINAND AND ISABELLA OF SPAIN WHO WEIGHED THE SMALL COST OF THE VOYAGE VS. THE GREAT WEALTH IF SUCCESSFUL

-ON 8/3/1492, PINTA NINA AND SANTA MARIA - DURING THE TRIP, MANY SAILORS BECOME FRIGHTENED AND WANTED TO TURN BACK. COLUMBUS KEEPS TWO LOGS TO KEEP THE CREW FOOLED AS TO THE REAL DISTANCE TRAVELED -ON 10/12/1492, BELIEVING THAT HE HAD REACHED THE INDIES, NAMED THE ISLAND HE LANDED ON SAN SALVADOR AND CALLED THE NATIVE AMERICANS--INDIANS. -COLUMBUS DID NOT FIND THE THINGS THAT MARCO POLO HAD DESCRIBED

COLUMBUS -MADE THREE OTHER VOYAGES. HIS SECOND HE STARTED A COLONY AND ON THE OTHER TWO HE SAILED ALONG THE COAST OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA -DIED 1506, NEVER KNOWING THAT HE HAD REACHED TWO CONTINENTS UNKNOWN TO EUROPEANS OF HIS TIME

BALBOA 1513 HEARD RUMORS OF A TRIBE WITH A LOT OF GOLD SEARCHED WESTWARD ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA

BALBOA FOUND AN “ENDLESS” SEA CALLED IT THE SOUTH SEA FIRST EUROPEAN TO SEE THE PACIFIC OCEAN

FOUND AN “ENDLESS” SEA CALLED IT THE SOUTH SEA FIRST EUROPEAN TO SEE THE PACIFIC OCEAN

PONCE DE LEON 1513 SEARCHED FOR A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH FOUND A “LAND OF FLOWERS” NAMED IT FLORIDA

ST. AUGUSTINE 1565 OLDEST CITY STARTED IN THE UNITED STATES

CORTES 1519 WANTED TO CONQUER THE AZTEC EMPIRE WANTED THE GOLD HELD BY THE AZTECS WENT TO THE CAPITAL CITY WITH 500 MEN

1519 MILITARY ADVANTAGES: GUNS, MUSKETS, GUNPOWDER & HORSES AZTECS THOUGHT: SPANISH WERE GODS AZTECS HAD MANY NATIVE AMERICAN ENEMIES WHO HELPED CORTES NO IMMUNITY TO EUROPEAN DISEASES

MONTEZUMA V. CORTES MONTEZUMA SENT GOLD AND GIFTS TO TRY AND SATISFY CORTES CORTES WANTED IT ALL PUSHED ONTO THE CAPITAL CITY AND CAPTURED MONTEZUMA CORTES FOUN D MORE RICHES THAN HE EVER IMAGINED

SPAIN TAKES CONTROL OF ALL OF CENTRAL AMERICA SPAIN BECOMES THE MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD

MAGELLAN 1519 WANTED TO REACH ASIA BY SAILING WEST SAILED THROUGH THE ROUGH WATERS AT THE TIP OF SOUTH AMERICA REACHED THE “PEACEFUL” WATERS NAMED THIS “NEW” OCEAN THE PACIFIC

“MAGELLAN” FIRST TO ROUND THE WORLD STARTED WITH 5 SHIPS IN SPAIN IN 1519 CROSSED THE ATLANTIC THEN THE PACIFIC REACHED THE PHILIPPINES WHERE MAGELLAN WAS KILLED IN A BATTLE WITH NATIVES LAST SHIP WITH REMAINING CREW CONTINUED TO THE SPICE ISLANDS

MAGELLAN’S CREW SAILS THE WORLD THE ONLY SHIP LOADED WITH EASTERN GOODS RETURNED TO SPAIN ARRIVED IN JOURNEY TOOK 3 YEARS AND WAS VERY PROFITABLE EVEN AFTER LOSING 4 SHIPS PROVED THAT ONE COULD REACH ASIA BY SAILING WEST AND STILL TURN A PROFIT SHOWED HOW LARGE THE WORLD REALLY WAS

PIZARRO EXPLORED WITH BALBOA WANTED TO FIND BALBOA’S CITY OF GOLD THOUGHT THAT THE “GOLDEN CITY” WAS TO THE SOUTH FOUND IT IN PERU

PIZARRO AND THE INCA ATTACKED THE INCA LEADER AND CAPTURED THE GREAT INCA PROMISED TO RETURN THE GREAT INCA IN EXCHANGE FOR A ROOM FULL OF GOLD THE INCA’S PAID THE RANSOM AND PIZARRO KILLED THE LEADER ANYWAY APPOINTED A “PUPPET LEADER”

DESOTO 1539 FIRST TO EXPLORE THE U.S. EXPLORED FROM TEXAS TO FLORIDA SAILED ON PART OF THE MISSISSIPPI CLAIMED ALL THIS TERRITORY FOR SPAIN

CORONADO 1540 TRAVELED MUCH OF THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. SEACHED FOR THE SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD--STREETS PAVED IN GOLD CLAIMED ALL OF THE SOUTHWEST FOR SPAIN

WHO CAME AND WHY? SOLDIERS--HOPING TO CONQUER NEW LAND EXPLORERS--LOOKING FOR GOLD MERCHANTS--CAME TO BUY AND SELL GOODS PRIESTS(MISSIONARIES)--HOPED TO CONVERT NATIVEAMERICANS TO CATHOLICISM (CHRISTIANITY)

THE THREE “G’s” OF EXPLORATION GOLD GLORY GOSPEL