1. The Age of Exploration

2. Why People Explore
Gold – Nations were always looking for new sources of wealth.
Glory – Individual explorers competed for fame and honor for both themselves and their countries.
God – Europeans believed it was their duty to bring Christianity to the non- believers of the world.

3. European Powerhouses
France
England
Spain
Portugal

4. Europe
England
France
Spain
Portugal

5. Who were the rulers of the nations of Europe?
Kings and Queens (a Monarchy)
~ a form of government in which supreme power is in an individual.

6. What was one way kings of the 15th century could expand their power?
By adding overseas colonies to their empire.

7. Early World Map: Includes just Europe, Africa, and part of Asia.

8. Many believed the earth was flat.

9. Bishop Pierre d’ Ailly’s book change the way people viewed the earth.
He said the earth was round, not flat.

10. Explorers of North America
The Age of Exploration

11. The Vikings reached North America five hundred years before Columbus
Leif Ericson
The Vikings reached North America five hundred years before Columbus

12. Discovering North America
982 Erik the Red founded Greenland.
Leif Erikson later landed on North America.

13. Claudius Ptolemy AD
One of the first to believe that the Earth was round (sphere), not flat.
Ptolemy’s map omitted the Western Hemisphere
One of the classical errors concerning the earth ----miscalculated the size of the earth.

14. Motives for Exploration
To search for new routes to the Far East.
To expand the empires of Spain, Portugal, England, and France.
To gain riches through trade.
To spread religious ideas

15. Marco Polo
European whose descriptions of the riches of China made traders wants to go to Asia.
He did not discover unknown lands and seas
Served as a special ambassador to Kublai Khan
Stayed in China for almost 25 years
Had books written about his travels

16. Prince Henry, the Navigator
Never actually sailed on any of the voyages of discovery he sponsored.
Established a school for the study of the arts of navigation, mapmaking, and shipbuilding.

17. Bartolomeu Dias
Led the first European expedition to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope
Opened up money making trading routes from Europe to Asia.

18. Vasco Da Gama
Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East.

19. Amerigo Vespucci An Italian explorer
First person to realize that the Americas were separate from the continent of Asia.
America was named for him in 1507

20. Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519)
Spanish conquistador and explorer.
First European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in 1513)

21. Magellan Searched for passage to Pacific Ocean
Sailed through “straits of Magellan”
Crew first to circumnavigate the world

22. Cabot Sailed for England Landed on coast of New- foundland
Gave England claim to North America

23. Christopher Columbus Reason for Exploring
Thought that Japan and the Indies were much closer than they are.
Explore a new route to the East Indies (Spice Islands).
Would become Governor of any lands discovered.
Keep 10% of wealth discovered.

24. Christopher Columbus
Set sail on Aug 3, 1492 from port of Palos, Spain.
Voyage into uncharted waters.
Landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492

25. Hernando de Soto Explores the Southeast
In 1539, Hernando de Soto landed near modern Tampa with an army of 700 to explore the Southeast and locate the fabled cities of gold.
Three years of exploration were marked by nearly constant conflict with the Native tribes and disease that reduced his army by half.
In 1542, de Soto himself died of disease in modern Alabama forcing the survivors of his party to escape to the Gulf of Mexico on rafts.
Despite the failure to secure riches for Spain, de Soto’s expedition was the most significant exploration of the American mainland to date.
Contact with the European explorers introduced the devastating disease smallpox to Native populations that had no natural immunity.
De Soto’s exploration of the Southeast

26. Giovanni da Verrazzano
First white man to sail into the New York Harbor and see the Hudson River

27. Juan Ponce De Leon 1460? - 1521 a Spanish explorer and soldier
First European to set foot in Florida.
Established the oldest European settlement in Puerto Rico
Discovered the Gulf Stream (a current in the Atlantic Ocean).
Was searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth and other riches.

28. Hernando Cortes a Spanish adventurer and conquistador
Overthrew the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain( ).

29. Francisco Pizzaro 1478-1541 A Spanish conquistador
Traveled through much of the Pacific coast of America along Peru. Discovered" the Incan empire and conquered it brutally and quickly, stealing immense hoards of gold, silver, and other treasures.

30. First European to travel the length of the Amazon River
Francesco de Orellana
First European to travel the length of the Amazon River

31. Sir Francis Drake Voyages: South America, Strait of Magellan.
Famous for: In Drake made his voyage around the world in Golden Hind.

32. Female Pirates . The life of a pirate or merchantman offered:
a steady income,
Adventure
freedom from social expectations.
Anne Bonny and Mary Read are the most infamous female pirates. They sailed with Calico Jack Rackham.

33. Blackbeard (Edward Teach)
The most notorious of the pirates of the Caribbean.
Captain of Queen Anne’s Revenge, also followed by several small sloops, depending on what he needed for attack.
In 1718, Blackbeard and his crews sailed into the harbor at Charleston, SC. They blockaded the harbor, plundered any ships which came his way, and held the town to ransom.