1. Europe’s Age of Exploration Chart

2. Objectives
Identify key European explorers of the Americas and Asia, and explain the goals and consequences of exploration on society

3. Europe's Age of Exploration Chart
Use the index in the back of the book and your homework to find the information.
Begin work on the chart.

4. Europe's Age of Exploration
Name
Country (s) Represented
Year (s)
Accomplishments
Prince Henry
(the Navigator)
Portugal
1419
Brought together experts who extended the art of navigation/ set up a school of Navigation
Bartholomeu Dias
Became first European to sail around southern tip of Africa (Calls it the Cape of Good Hope)
1488

5. Europe's Age of Exploration
Name
Country (s) Represented
Year (s)
Accomplishments
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
First European to sail around the Southern tip of Africa, into the Indian Ocean and on to India
Credited for Discovering America

6. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain Pedro Cabral Pope Alexander VI
Prince Henry
Bartholomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
Pedro Cabral
Pope Alexander VI
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortés
Montezuma (Moctezuma) II
Francisco Pizarro
*Atahualpa
*Hernando de Soto
*Francisco Coronado
Sir Francis Drake
Robert de la Salle (1682)
*Not in the book. Leave a space

7. Europe's Age of Exploration
Name
Country (s) Represented
Year (s)
Accomplishments
Atahualpa
Inca Empire (Peru)
Inca Emperor
Hernando de Soto
Spain
1536
First European to explore Florida and the Southeastern US.
Francisco Coronado
First European to explore North America's Southwest.