1. Ch. 2 Section 2
Early Exploration pp

2. Seeking New Trade Routes
Portugal’s ambitious rulers wanted an all-water route to India and China around Africa
Direct route to west African gold
Prince Henry the Navigator in 1420 set up a center for exploration—brought in experts to explore west coast of Africa—updated maps

3. Bartholomeu Dias Portuguese Explorer
1487--First European to sail around cape of Africa
Cape renamed Cape of Good Hope

4. Portuguese exploration
Dias
Vasco da Gama

5. Vasco da Gama Portuguese—1st to reach India
—made huge sweep around Africa to safely round Cape of Good Hope
Visited cities along east coast of Africa and reached Calicut ,India in 1498
Pedro Cabral accidently sailed to Brazil and claimed it for Portugal
Then went on to India and returned with spices and other goods

6. Do Now
How was Portugal going to get to Asia?
How was Columbus?

7. Do Now Which Portuguese explorer made it all the way to India (Asia)?
Where did Columbus land on his first voyage?

8. Columbus Spain—1492-1504 Born in Genoa, Italy—1451
Sailed on journeys to Africa and Iceland
Loved to read, moved to Portugal at age 25
Made 4 voyages to the New World
1st—explored Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola

9. Vector map

10. Columbus’s—Voyages 2-4
2nd Voyage—established a colony and sent slaves back to Spain --searched for China
Settlers reported to have cut off hands of natives who did not bring gold
3rd Voyage-Columbus put down an uprising in the colonies treating them harshly
Columbus brothers sent back in chains
4th—sailed to Central America

11. Do Now
From the play yesterday, name two (2) characteristics of Columbus.
What do you think the native Taino Indians thought of Columbus and his crew?

12. Columbus’s Contradictions Say one thing and do another
Kept a fake log
Claimed he saw mines of gold
--in reality very little gold
Wanted to convert native people
--In fact did not bring a priest
Mentioned gold over 100 times in his journal

13. Magellan—
First to circumnavigate or sail around the world—one ship made it back
Named the Pacific Ocean

14. Columbus’s Adventurous Spirit
From paragraph 5, name two new places that Columbus charted.
From the last paragraph, which country became the most powerful in the world because of Columbus?