Transcript 1. Where was he from?

Write these questions on each of your 4 cards.
Also put a map in the corner of each card.
We’ll add the name of each person when we get
to that card.
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
Explorers
Prince
Henry the
Navigator
Christopher
Columbus
Vasco da
Gama
Ferdinand
Magellan
Prince Henry the
Navigator
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
1. Portugal
2. -Brought experts together to
study navigation & paid
for exploration
Q: From what country do you think the first
explorations come?
3. Prince Henry Paid 4
Portuguese to X-Plore
Vasco
da Gama
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
1. Portugal
2. -sailed around tip of Africa
to India (1st H2O route to
Asia)
Q: Why were Europeans trying to get to Asia?
3. Da Gama & Da Portuguese
Da Sailed to Da India
Christopher
Columbus
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
1. Spain
2. -sailed west to Asia but
landed in Bahamas
-1st E’pean to find “New World”
-never knew he wasn’t in India
Q: Would you consider him a success or failure?
3. Spain wanted to be in India,
but Chris landed in the Americas
Ferdinand
Magellan
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
1. Spain
2. -his crew = 1st to
circumnavigate the globe
Q: What does circumnavigate mean?
-circumnavigate = go around the
world
3. Magellan left Spain in a boat
to circumnavigate the globe
Write these questions on each of your 4 cards.
Also put a map in the corner of each card.
We’ll add the name of each person when we get
to that card.
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
Explorers
Hernando
Cortez
Francis
Drake
Francisco
Pizarro
Jacques
Cartier
Hernando
Cortez
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
1. Spain
2.-conquered the Aztecs & took
over Mexico
Q: What did the Aztecs have that the Spanish
would want?
3. In Mexico, the Aztecs were
bold
But Cortez & Spain took
their gold
Francisco
Pizarro
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
1. Spain
2. conquered Incas & took over
Peru & Chile
Q: In what mountains were the Incas located?
Q: What did they have that Pizarro could use to
help conquer them?
3. Spain liked Pizarro with extra
cheese
and they conquered the
Incas in the Andes
Francis
Drake
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
1. England
2. -1st Englishman to
circumnavigate the globe
3. Drake! Drake! English
circumnavigate!
Jacques
Cartier
1. Where was he
from?
2. What did he do?
3. Memory hook
1. From France
2. Claimed E’ern Canada
(Quebec) for France
3. Cartier - he liked to dance he claimed Canada for
France