1. The Age of Discovery Early 15th Century to 17th Century

2. Introduction to Exploration

3. What was European Exploration about?

4. Introduction to Exploration
European Exploration was about:
Power:
European Countries wanted to dominate the rest of the world.
Wealth:
European countries competed to become the richest country in the world.
Trade :
European countries wanted to find new trade routes between Europe and Asia.
(Trade=exchange of goods between two different countries)

5. Technology and New Innovations
Better and faster ship designs
Printing Press
More reliable magnetic compass
Invention of the clock
New navigational methods
People realized that the world was not flat
more accurate maps
Gun powder and new weapons
cannons/muskets/guns
Technology
and
new innovations made it possible for explorers to explore the oceans.

7. The Three main countries involved:
1. Portugal 2. Spain 3. England
Monarchies (rulers) of Portugal, Spain and England wanted to increase their wealth and power.
Monarchies funded expeditions to explore new trade routes

8. Reasons for Exploration & Who were the first European Explorers
Reasons for Exploration & Who were the first European Explorers? (part I)
Day 2=slides 8-16
Day 2

9. Warm-Up Answer the following question: (write down the questions)
What were the three main countries involves during the early 15th century European Exploration?
2. List some of the technological advances and innovations these countries had.

10. Reasons for Exploration
Scarcity in Europe
Overpopulation (lots of people living there)
Bubonic plague (diseases killing people & crops)
New trade routes to Asia
Spices of Asia
Main reasons for exploration
God + Glory + Gold = Three G’s
God-the spread of Christianity
Gold-in search of new riches & resources
Glory-make country and king powerful (top ruler of the world)

11. Exploration caused…
Competition (a race) between Portugal, Spain, and England to find new trade routes.
Portugal
1st place = found routes around Africa
Spain
2nd place= found routes to Americas and Caribbean
England
3rd place= found routes to North America

12. Trade Routes to Asia & India
Europe
England
Before Exploration
Spain
Portugal
Africa
After Exploration
Cape of Good Hope
Trade Routes to Asia & India

13. European Explorers PORTUGAL: SPAIN: ENGLAND: John Cabot Prince Henry
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
SPAIN:
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
ENGLAND: John Cabot

14. Prince Henry (PORTUGAL)
Responsible for early European Exploration
son of King John I of Portugal
Often called Henry the Navigator
1419 he founded a navigation school in Portugal
-mapmakers, shipbuilders, scientists
His goal was to find a new trade route and explore the West African coast.

15. Bartolomeu Dias (PORTUGAL)
From Portugal
1488-First European to reach the southern most tip of Africa
Cape of Good Hope

16. Vasco da Gama (PORTUGAL)
From Portugal
First to sail from Europe to India.
Around 1948-He sailed around Africa - Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean to reach India.
Portugal set up trade posts in Africa, India, and China.

17. Who were the first European Explorers?
(part II)
Day 3 slides: 16-26
Day 3

18. Write several facts about the following people:
Warm Up
Write several facts about the following people:
Prince Henry
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama

19. European Explorers PORTUGAL: SPAIN: ENGLAND: John Cabot Prince Henry
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
SPAIN:
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
ENGLAND: John Cabot
Around Africa
West from Africa

20. Christopher Columbus (SPAIN)
Born in Italy, sailed for Spain
He wanted to reach India by sailing West (not around Africa)
1492 -The King and Queen of Spain funded Columbus’ voyage.
Made four voyages to the Americas.
Columbus 3 ships:
Niña
Pinta
Santa Maria

21. Columbus 1st Voyage= DISCOVERY
Columbus thought that he had reached Asia and named his discovery the “West Indies”.
but actually he had reached the Caribbean not Asia.
He called the people he encountered Indians.
Spain later discovers that Columbus had not reached the West Indies.

22. Ferdinand Magellan (SPAIN)
Born in Portugal
Sailed for Spain
He proved that the new lands, which Columbus called “West Indies” were not Asia.

23. First to circumnavigate the world!
Circumnavigate=to sail around

24. Amerigo Vespucci (SPAIN)
Born in Italy: sailed for Spain.
Explored the Americas
Claimed that these new lands were not part of Asia.
The route to Asia was being blocked by two large continents.
North and South America was named after him.

25. John Cabot (ENGLAND) Born in Italy Sailed for England
Made voyages to North America
This led to the later founding of English colonies in North America.

26. England
Portugal
Spain

27. Who were the Native Americans/Indigenous people of the Americas?
Who occupied the Americas before the European Arrival?
Day 4 slides: 27-34
Day 4

28. Write several facts about the following people:
Warm-Up
Write several facts about the following people:
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
John Cabot

29. NATIVE AMERICANS & INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
North America
Many different tribes in each geographical region
Examples include:
Northern USA Iroquois
Southern USA Cherokee/Pueblo Indian
South America –3 major groups
Aztec, Maya, Inca

30. North American Civilizations

31. South American Civilizations

32. Native Indians Agriculture base society (farming)
Planted crops: beans, corn-maize, squash, pumpkins, potatoes, tomatoes, avocado, cacao-chocolate
Hunters & Gathers (Animal/Fruits)
Arts and Craft
Lived in groups of large communities

33. Arts & Craft

35. Outcomes of Exploration
Day 5 Slides:
Day 5

36. Warm-Up
Fill in the Chart

37. Impacts of Columbus voyages
Marked the beginning of lasting contact between Europe, Africa, and Americas.
Devastated the Native American population.
Lead to Columbian Exchange: exchange of goods, ideas, disease, etc. between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

39. Diseases
Europe and Americas were two different environments
Natives were not immune (resistant) to the diseases they came in contact
diseases that the Europeans brought from Europe were much more different from diseases that the natives were immune to.
Many Natives died
from diseases.
Small pox, Malaria
much more…

40. The Slave Trade Existed before the Europeans arrived in Africa.
Portuguese replaced European slaves with Africans.
Europeans traded with Africans for slaves.
(to bring slaves to the new world)
Slaves-captives or prisoners of war

42. Outcomes of Exploration
Trade- Europe/Africa/Asia/Americas
Conquest (Spanish, English, Portuguese)
Colonization:
A power that extends control over weaker peoples/area
Europeans took
political control
over the Americas.

43. Conquest & Colonization (examples)
Portugal: Pedro Álvares Cabral (Brazil for Portugal)
Spain:
Hernan Cortéz (fall of Aztec/Maya)
Francisco Pizzaro (fall of Inca)
England:
Sir Frances Drake
(1st to sail around the world completely)
Sir Walter Raleigh
(1st colony in North America in North Carolina)

44. Outcomes of Exploration
Globalization-international interchange of world views, culture, ideas, and products.
Imperialism (after 17th century)
Interdependence-The Americas became dependant on the European countries.
Transculturation-The blend of cultures creating a new culture.

45. Global Interactions & Impact European exploration had in Europe and the Americas
Day 6 slides: 45-48
Day 6

46. Global Interactions & Impact European exploration had in Europe and the Americas
Quest for new trade routes leads to discovery of “New Lands”.

47. Global Interactions & Impact European exploration had in Europe and the Americas
Impact in Europe:
Power, Wealth, Trade & Technological Advances (better maps & circumnavigate ideas)
Impact in the Americas:
Spread of disease
Conversion to Christianity
Clash of cultures
Transculturation of cultures
Colonization & Imperialism
Slavery

48. Expansion of Trade= Globalization

49. Why is it important of study The Age of Discovery?
Day 7 slides 49-53
Day 7

50. Write what you have learned about European Exploration
Warm Up
Write what you have learned about European Exploration
One paragraph or more
(must be more than one sentence)

51. Why is it important of study The Age of Discovery?
The outcome of European exploration: Globalization
We are able to connect with people from all over the world.
Transculturation: Mixture of cultures in the Americas
Food, Music, Art & Architecture

52. Transculturation (examples)
Jazz music
mix of European and African music
Latin Music
mix of European/African/Indigenous music
And much more music styles…

53. Food
Italy
Europe
Asia
South America