Transcript European Exploration

Bellwork
At the beginning of your notes, list 2
or 3 European explorers you have
already heard of
Do you remember where they
explored?
Do you know where they were
from?
European
Exploration
Effects of Columbus’s
Voyage
• Placed European powers in direct
competition for trade and
resources
• Spain and Portugal- Treaty of
Tordesillas- established line of
demarcation
Our namesake
• 1499- Italian Amerigo Vespucci set out
on Portuguese voyage- sailed along
Northern coast of South America
• On second trip in 1502, concluded that
this was a new continent, not Indiapublished account
• Obscure German map maker named
continent America
Spain and Portugal
• Vasco Balboa- 1513- Panamabecame first European to see
east coast of the Pacific Ocean
• Ferdinand Magellan- 1519- first
circumnavigation of the world
– Sailed around southern tip of S.
America- attempted mutinyMagellan killed in the Philippines
18 survivors returned to Spain
Conquistadors
• Hernan Cortes- 1519- 600
soldiers to Mexico
– Firearms and horses
– Emperor Moctezuma welcomed
them as gods to Aztec capital
– Took Moctezuma captive, raided
city
– Driven out, returned with alliesdestroyed city
– Spanish Left horses behind
Conquistadors
• Francisco Pizarro1531- sailed to Peru
with 180 soldiers
– Seized Incan capital
and ruler- Atahulapaexecuted
– Captured Cuzco,
established Lima
– Pizarro murdered by
competitor’s son in
1541
English Explorers
• John Cabot- 1497Atlantic shores of
Canada
• Francis Drake- 1577
sent off to pillage
Spanish coloniesbecame first
Englishman to
circumnavigate the
globe
French Explorers
• Search for the
Northwest Passage
– Jacques Cartier- 1534Explored St. Lawrence
River to Montreal
– Samuel De Champlain1608- founded Quebecfirst French settlement
• Focused on trade
rather than agriculture
and settlement
Dutch Presence
• Henry Hudson- 1609Englishman funded by
the Dutch- sailed up
river from New York
Harbor- Hudson River
• Set up trading posts
on Manhattan- named
New Amsterdam
• Fell to the English in
1664
Closure
• Using your notes, complete the
European Explorers matching
activity for homework