Transcript God, Gold and Glory

Europe Looks Outward
EQ: Why did the Europeans come to North
America in large numbers?
The Age of Exploration
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In about 1001, the
Vikings from
Scandinavia arrived
in North America
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Leif Erikson and 35
other sailors left from
Greenland to North
America
The Age of Exploration
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Christopher Columbus
believed he could reach
Asia by sailing west
across the Atlantic
Ocean
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He learned all he knew
from working on
Portuguese ships, but
when he tried to get his
own ship, the King
turned him down.
He moved to Spain and
presented his plan to
King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella, who
gave Columbus money
for his trip
The Age of Exploration
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In August of 1492,
Columbus and 90 men
set sail on three ships,
the Nina, the Pinta and
the Santa Maria
After three months,
Columbus found land
and claimed it for
Spain. Thinking it was
India, he called the
people on the land
Indians.
Columbus then sailed
south and found the
island of Cuba
The Age of Exploration
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Columbus traveled back
to Spain in January of
1493, and claimed that
there was lots of gold in
the “West Indies”
Columbus made three
more voyages to what he
thought was India, he
found present day Puerto
Rico and northern South
America
Why did Europeans come to
North America
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The Three G’s!!!!!!!!!!!
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God
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Gold
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Glory
Europeans begin to compete in
North American
Four countries began the massive
exploration of North America:
 Spain
 Portugal
 France
 Netherlands
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The Age of Exploration
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Many explorers
followed the route
charted by Columbus
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In 1510, Spanish explorer
Vasco Nunez de Balboa,
explored the Caribbean
coast of Panama, he also
went through the forest
and saw the Pacific
Ocean
In September 1519,
Portuguese explorer,
Ferdinand Magellan
planned to find a
passage from the Atlantic
to the Pacific
The Age of Exploration
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For more then one
year, his fleet traveled
down the South
American coast
looking for a strait.
They traveled so far
south, they saw
penguins
Magellan finally
reached the Philippine
Islands, where he was
killed in battle.
The survivors fled in
two ships, they
reached Spain in
September 1522, after
circumnavigating the
earth.