Transcript Age of Exploration

Age of
Exploration
1400’s => 1800’s
Why did the
Europeans seek
to trade with
the Far East?
Why did the Europeans seek to trade with the Far East?
Prince Henry “The Navigator”
• Portugal
• 1424
• Began and funded sea navigation
• Never left Portugal
Bartholomeu Dias
• Portugal
• 1487
• Sailed to the Cape of
Storms, 1st European to
sail around Africa
• Cape of Storms/Cape of
Good Hope
Vasco Da Gama
• Portugal
• 1497-1499
• 1st European to reach India by an all sea route
• India
Christopher Columbus
• Spain
• 1492, 1493, 1498, and 1502
• Discovered can go west to get to the east
◊ Rediscovered the Americas?
◊ Began the exploitation of the Americas?
• West Indies
Pedro Alvarez Cabral
• Portugal
• 1500
• Took control of trade
in the Indian Ocean
from Arabs
• India, Indian Ocean &
Brazil
What was the
significance of
the Treaty of
Tordesillas?
Amerigo Vespucci
• Portugal
• 1501
• Cartographer
• Charted the east coast of the Americas
• Martin Waldseemuller, a German map maker named the Americas after him
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Spain
• 1509-1513
• 1st European to cross
Panama to see the
Pacific Ocean
• Panama and the
South Sea
Hernan Cortes
• Spain
• 1519
• Conquistador
• Destroyed the Aztecs
• Mexico
What allowed the
Europeans to
impose their will
on the indigenous
peoples of the
world?
Ferdinand Magellan
• Spain
• 1519-1522
• 1st expedition to
circumnavigate the world
• Strait of Magellan, Pacific
Ocean, and the
Philippines
•Magellan started in Spain
•Died in the Philippines
•His expedition returned to Spain
Francisco Pizarro
• Spain
• 1531-1532
• Conquistador
• Destroyed the Incas in
Peru
• Peru
Jacques Cartier
• France
• 1535-1536
• Claimed eastern
Canada for France
• Quebec
Francisco de Orellana
•
Spain
•
1541-1543
•
Explored the Amazon
•
Named the Amazon and Amazon River
•
Amazon River & Amazon Rainforest
Willem Barents
• Netherlands
• 1596-1597
• Looked for a Northeast Passage
• Barents Sea
Henry Hudson (Part I)
• Netherlands
• 1609
• Looked for a
Northwest Passage
• Hudson River &
New Amsterdam
Henry Hudson (Part II)
• England
• 1610
• Looked for a
Northwest Passage
• Hudson Bay and
Hudson Strait
What products
did the
Europeans
introduce to
the Americas?
What products
did the Native
Americans
share with the
Europeans?
What products
did the Asians
introduce to
the Europeans
and Americans?
What products
did the Africans
introduce to
the Europeans
and Americans?