Early European Explorers

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Early European Explorers

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A Water Route to Asia

• First, he wanted to learn about lands not heard
  of. Secondly, he wanted to bring Christianity to
  the continents of Asia and Africa. Lastly, he
  wanted to find a ocean route around Asia and
  Africa.

• Prince Henry the Navigator
• What is a navigator?
• Learn about lands, Christianity, Asia to
  Africa
• Caravel

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Caravels
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Bartolomeu Dias sailed to the South tip of
Africa and turned around Cape of Good Hope
Giving Portugal Hope for a Route to Asia
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10 Years Later
Avoid Muslims
Vasco de Gama Portugal, took Diass route, but
continued to India First Route from Europe to
Asia!
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Columbuss Plan
Italian Sailor Sail West across the
Atlantic Mistakes 1. Marco Polo and Paolo
Toscanelli 2. Underestimated the Distance
3. Atlantic must be small Asked King of
Portugal to finance voyage
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Columbuss Plan

• No luck in Portugal, so he went to Spain
• Ferdinand and Isabella agreed to share the riches
• However, there was war with Muslims
• Queen wanted to spread Christianity
• Waited for years, so he wanted the name Admiral
  of the Ocean Sea and rule the discovered land

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Setting Sail

• Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria
• 90 men
• Kept two (2) logs

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Two Months Later

• Men lost confidence in Columbus and wanted to
  return to Spain
• Men agreed to sail for three (3) more days
• Tierra! Tierra! from the Pinta
• Thought he reached the SE Asia (Indies), but was
  in the Caribbean
• Called the Native people Indian

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Setting Sail

• Named the island San Salvador
• He left the island (leaving men behind) to go to
  Japan
• Gone for three (3) months
• He reached Espanola (Hispaniola)
• Found Pearls he though he was in Asia
• Returned home and came back to find his men dead

JOURNALS
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An Expanding Horizon

• Made three (3) more voyages, but never brought
  back treasures
• Queen was upset with the Native treatment and not
  spreading Christianity
• Spain refused to finance more voyages
• Building the Bridge