Exploration & Expansion Voyages of Discovery

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Exploration ExpansionVoyages of Discovery

• Ms. James

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Voyages to Discovery

• What caused the Age of Exploration?
• Renaissance spirit of discovery
• Search for wealth
• People want to find a faster way to India to get
  trade goods
• Advances in Technology
• Three Gs Gold, God, Glory

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Routes to India

• Sail east around Africa
• (New Idea) Sail westOpps New World

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New Technology

• Explorers needed to calculate their location with
  a
• Compass
• Astrolabe
• Developed by Muslim Empires

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New Technology Cont

• Explorers needed a ship that can hold large
  cargos and withstand heavy waves
• Caravel- was a light, fast sailing ship
• Steered with rudder
• Triangular Sails
• Equipped with cannons

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Portuguese Explorers

• Portugals Kings were patrons of the explorers
• King Henry the Navigator- ultimate goal was to
  find a water route around Africa to India.
• Portuguese
• Bartolomeu Dias (map on next slide)
• First European to attempt to sail around the
  southern tip of Africa Cape of Good Hope

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Portuguese Explorers Cont

• Vasco de Gama
• First to make it to Clicut, India and back to
  Portugal!

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Portuguese Explorers Cont

• Pedro Cabral
• Second trip to India!
• Sailed to Brazil and Indonesia!
• Lucrative trading posts

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Spanish Explorers

• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella helped finance
  certain voyages!
• Christopher Columbus (1492)
• Columbus sails west to get to Indiainventive
  idea but flawed because the Americas are in the
  way!
• Sails to Caribbean Islands
• Finds Indians and he believes he found new
  route to India!

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Columbus Route
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Spanish Explorers Cont..

• Amerigo Vespucci
• First to realize that Columbus found a New
  World, Americas named after him.

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Spanish Explorers Cont

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Tried to find passage at Isthmus of Panama.
• Spanish realize theres another ocean to cross to
  get to India.
• First to reach Pacific Ocean from New World
• Panama Canal today!!!

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Spanish Explorers Cont

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Sails west to sail AROUND WORLD!
• Circumnavigate- sail completely around the world.
• Left with 250 men, and returns with only 18
  (Minus Magellan, he dies during voyage)

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English Explorers

• English
• John Cabot, sailed to Canada

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English Explorers Cont

• Sir Francis Drake, sailed to southern tip of
  South America and stopped over in modern day
  California.
• 2 to circumnavigate the world.

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English Explorers Cont

• Henry Hudson
• Tried to find Northeast Passage, but found ice
  instead. Not the last time well see Hudson.

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French Explorers

• French
• Jacques Cartier (1534 1535)
• Sailed into the St. Lawrence River in Canada New
  France or Newfoundland
• Fur Trade is very profitable.

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Dutch Explorers

• Dutch
• Henry Hudson (Again, but for different country)
• Explored Hudson Bay region, in search of
  Northwest Passage

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Henrys search for the Northeast Passage
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Explorers find new ways to make new routes

• Cant Go Over It.
• Cant Go Under It.
• Cant Go Around It.
• Got to Go Through It.

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Making Contact!

• The beginning of conquest and colonies occurs
  when explorers get off their ships in search of
  riches and land to claim for country!
• Cortes (Aztec Empire)
• Pizarro (Inca Empire)
• REMEMBER
• 3 Gs God, Gold, Glory

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Thats All Folks