Transcript Portuguese Explorers

Portuguese Explorers
Prince Henry
“The Navigator”
 Sponsor- Portugal
 Motivation For ExplorationGold, God, Glory
 Claims to Fame: Set up a
school of navigation and
mapmaking
 Born 1394
 Died 1460
Bartolomeu Dias
 Sponsor- Portugal
 Motivation For ExplorationGold, God, Glory
 Claims to Fame: 1st European to
to go around the Southern tip of
Africa
 Born 1451
 Died 1500
Vasco da Gama
 Sponsor- Portugal
 Motivation For ExplorationSpices
 Claims to Fame: charted a sea
route to India
 Born 1469
 Died 1524
Pedro Cabral
 Sponsor- Portugal
 Motivation For Explorationestablished trading posts and
treaties
 Claims to Fame: claimed
present day Brazil for
Portugal
 Born 1467
 Died 1520
Treaty of Tordesillas
 Between the Spanish and the Portuguese
to clear up confusion on new land in the
New World (South America)
 Gave Portugal 320 miles of land from the
Atlantic Coast, and Spain everything else
west.
Treaty of Tordesillas
We can see that
little exploration
had taken place
at the time the
treaty was signed
because Spain
received much
more land.
Portugal was only
given Brazil
Spanish Explorers and
Conquistadors (adventurers)
Why did the Spanish explore?
 In the late 1400’s Spain was determined to make their
country a powerful force in Europe.
 One way to do this was to sponsor explorations and
claim new lands for Spain.
Christopher Columbus
 Italian explorer who sailed
for Spain
 Believed sailing west would
be the easiest route to the
Indies. (or Asia)
 Set sail for the “New World”
on three ships called the
Nina, Pinta, and Santa
Maria
 Born 1451
 Died 1506
Ferdinand Magellan
 Believed he could sail
west to the Indies if he
found a strait, or channel,
through South America.
 Born 1480
 Died 1521
Ponce de Leon
Explored Florida for
Spain
Was in search of the
“Fountain of Youth”
•Born 1460
•Died 1521
Hernan Cortes
 Explored Mexico and
conquered the Aztecs
 Aztec king Montezuma
welcomed Cortes but was
taken hostage
 Used weapons and disease to
destroy the Aztecs
 Born 1485
 Died 1547
Francisco Pizarro
 Conquered the Inca Empire in
South America
 Pizarro launched a surprise
attack and kidnapped the
emperor.
 Pizarro killed the emperor
after his people paid a large
ransom of gold and silver
 Born 1475
 Died 1541
What was the impact of
Spanish exploration?
 Spain earned great wealth from settlements in the New
World.
 The Spanish devastated native people. Priests forced
them into Christianity.
 Natives were forced into slavery, many died of
starvation, overwork, or European disease.
 Spanish introduced many new things to the Americas
What was the Columbian
Exchange?