Transcript Age of Exploration cont…

Renaissance, Reformation, Age of
Exploration, Enlightenment, Scientific
Revolution, Revolutions and
Rebellions, and Napoleon
Age of Exploration
1. “God, gold, and glory”
2. Astrolabe
3. Prince Henry the Navigator
4. Vasco Da Gama
5. Ferdinand Magellan
6. Circumnavigate
7. Christopher Columbus
8. Samuel de Champlain
9. James Cook
10. Columbian Exchange
11. New World
Age of Exploration
1490-1650 A.D.
• Time period during the
Renaissance when
Europeans began
exploring the world
• Began trying to find faster
route to Asia and bypass the
Muslim empires that were
controlling the Silk Road land
and water trade routes
• Goals:
– Spread Christianity (God)
– Get gold (Gold)
– Make country and king
powerful (glory)
• New inventions made
exploration easier
– Astrolabe, a device that shows
date, time and direction by
mapping the position of the sun
and stars
– Cartography – map-making
becomes more accurate
Silk Road
Age of Exploration cont…
EXPLORERS TO KNOW
Portugal – first to explore world
1400s
1. Prince Henry the Navigator – 1420s -founded a
school for exploration teaching use of astrolabe,
sailing techniques, and new ships exploring West
coast of Africa
2. Vasco Da Gama – 1498 first to sail around the horn
of Africa and reach India by this route
Spain – becomes world power
through exploration – 1500s
1. Christopher Columbus -1492– Italian, sailed for
Spain; discovered “New World”; landed in Caribbean
but thought he landed in India, so he called the
people he met “Indians”
*The place he discovered became known as the
“West Indies” (West India)
R.I.P.
Here lies
Ferdinand
Magellan
I still
a.k.a
look good
“Almost There”
even with
scurvy.
2. Ferdinand Magellan 1521– Portuguese; sailed for
Spain; tried to find western water route to China; first
to circumnavigate the world; died in the Philippines
but his crew makes it back
France – early 1600s
Samuel de Champlain – 1608 – first to explore Great
Lakes area; founded the colony of Quebec in what is
modern-day Canada
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England – overtakes Spain as
world power – 1700s
James Cook –1760s - explored the pacific Ocean;
claimed Australia for Great Britain; later became a
penal colony
Age of Exploration cont…
Or, a global transfer
of goods and ideas
from Americas,
Europe and Africa
Columbian Exchange
From New
World
MAIZE
POTATO
Turkey
Tomato
Vanilla
Tobacco
Cocoa
Syphilis
From
Africa
SLAVES
Bananas
Malaria
From Europe
GUNS
HORSES
Citrus Fruits
Wheat
Oats
Cattle
Pig
Smallpox
Flu
Christianity
From
Middle
East and
Asian
Countries
Coffee
Rice
Black
Pepper
Effects of Columbian Exchange
Most of the native
Americans in South
America died from the
diseases brought over
by the Europeans.
Most of those that
didn’t were
conquered, forced to
become slaves or
workers, and forced to
convert to Christianity.
Review Questions
1. The route depicted on this map was first
travelled by
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Erasmus
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama explored for
Portugal and was the first to
round the horn of Africa
2. A Spanish explorer learning Aztec
languages, an Incan becoming Christian, a
European eating new foods like potatoes,
slaves being taken to the New World, and
an Englishman marrying a Native American
woman are all examples of
a.
b.
c.
d.
Slave trade
New inventions
Atlantic Trade
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange brought cultures all over the world in
contact with each other’s customs, beliefs, and goods.
3. He believed that India could be reached
by sailing west and discovered what
would be known as the Americas.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Vasco do Gama
Samuel de Champlain
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Columbus discovered the “new world’ but thought he landed in India; thus
that area of the Caribbean was called the “West Indies”
4. The invention that had the greatest impact
on exploration was the
a.
b.
c.
d.
Smaller ships
astrolabe
compass
Printing press
5. If you were a native American living in the
new world, you would probably feel
______ about/by the Columbian
Exchange
a.
b.
c.
d.
Apathetic
Elated
Dismayed
Amused
The Columbian Exchange killed off most of the native
Americans and those who survived were often taken as slaves
6. Which country was the first to successfully
embark on long range voyages during the
age of exploration?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Portugal
France
Spain
England
Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator started a school for
navigation and successfully explored the West Coast of Africa