Transcript 3. Who were the explorers?

The Age of Exploration:
What do I need to know????
1. Reasons for exploration- What did they want?
2. Advantages- Reasons Europeans dominated?
3. Who were the explorers?
4. Where did they explore?
Reasons:
• Necessity
• Commercial- Supply/Demand
• Religious- convert to Christianity
“God, glory, and gold.”
Advantages:
• Political- power hungry
– Sponsorship ($ investments)
– Provided with weapons
• Technological- improved navigation
– Such as the lateen, astrolabe, caravels
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
• Prince in Portugal who built a
navigation school to help train
explorers on the newest
navigational techniques/tools.
Henry the Navigator…
• He brought shipbuilders, mapmakers, sea
captains, and instrument makers from all
over Europe to live and study with him.
• invited sailors, travelers, and scholars from
Europe, Africa, and the Middle East to
share their knowledge of geography.
• Funded trips to West Africa.
• Ultimately, he helped scholars create more
accurate maps of Africa.
The Age of Exploration:
Is it a risky business?
Opinionated question.
We will discuss & answer this together in class
Christopher Columbus
• Country sailed for:
Italian man, who
sailed for Spain
• Route of Exploration:
Ferdinand Magellan
• Country sailed for:
– Spain
• Route of Exploration:
– First to
Circumnavigate
Francisco Pizarro
• Country sailed for:
– Spain
• Route of Exploration:
– South America,
discovered the Inca
Hernan Cortez
• Country sailed for:
– Spain
• Route of Exploration:
– Mexico, discovered the
Aztec
Sir Francis Drake
• Country sailed for:
– England
• Route of Exploration:
– 2nd to circumnavigate,
but first to survive!
** NOTE: what is the difference
in the route between Magellan
and Drake?
Jacques Cartier
• Country sailed for:
– France
• Route of Exploration:
– Northwest Canada
Vasco Da Gama
• Country sailed for:
– Portugal
• Route of Exploration:
– Africa, first to make it
to India
Bartolomeu Dias
• Country sailed for:
– Portugal
• Route of Exploration:
– First to go around
Cape of Good Hope in
Africa
John Cabot
• Country sailed for:
– England
• Route of Exploration:
– Canada
What is the impact?
• Do these men matter?
• When they “discovered” new locations,
what was the result? Look specifically
where these men went and think what
happened. Can you see their influences
today?
Make sure to fill in your maps and label the
exploration routes correctly