1. European Explorers

2. Age of Exploration
Period of time in which Europeans started looking for other trade routes
Other than Silk Road
Exploration was centered around trade

4. European Explorers Prince Henry the Navigator Vasco de Gama
Portugal
Responsible for starting Age of Exploration
Taught others how to survive long sea journeys
Vasco de Gama
Sailed around Africa to India
Discovered sea route to Asia
Ferdinand Magellan
First to circumnavigate the Earth
Went all the way around

5. European Explorers (cont.)
Hernando de Soto
Spanish Explorer and Conquistador
Discovered Mississippi River
Jacques Cartier
French Explorer
Discovered and named Canada
John Cabot
Italian working for English
2nd to travel to “New World”

6. European Explorers (cont.)
Robert de la Salle
French Explorer
Traveled Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys
Claimed Mississippi River for France
Francis Drake
English Explorer
Circumnavigated the Earth
Defeated Spanish Armada and stole from them as a pirate in New World

9. Christopher Columbus Italian Went to Spain to get money for journey
Went looking for a route to Asia across the Atlantic
Accidentally discovered the Americas

10. Effects of Exploration
New sea trade routes found to Asia
Europeans start to colonize the Americas