Age of Exploration

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Age of Exploration
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Prince Henry the Navigator

• Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal,
  but he helped make it possible for the first
  Europeans to explore Africa.
• Henry wanted to find a water route to India.
• Henry set up a school for sailors to learn the
  secrets of the ocean.
• Henry also employed cartographers who created the
  most sophisticated maps of their time.

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Christopher Columbus, Italian

• Determined the Earth was round by studying
  Ptolemy
• Looking for shorter route to far east for silks
  and spices
• First asked the king of Portugal for financing
• 1484 asked Spanish monarchs and was rebuffed
• 1492 persisted with Spanish and voyages were
  financed because the monarch saw both financial
  and religious advantages
• 4 trips lasted from 1492 1504

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Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese

• Sailors tried to mutiny but he crushed it
• 1520 found a southwest passage that took him
  around the tip of South America named it Strait
  of Magellan
• 1521 reached the island of Guam where he died
• Only one of his 5 ships returned with 19
  crewmembers and valuable cargo

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Magellans route around the world
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Henry Hudson, Englishman

• commissioned by several trade companies to find
  northern water route to Asia
• explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and
  northeastern North America
• The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay
  are named for Hudson
• credited with finding what is now the location of
  New York City

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Results of Exploration

• God, glory and gold
• The indigenous people of the regions suffered
• New colonies were settled
• Slavery became widespread
• Empires were built
• Trade was lucrative
• Diets changed
• Maps were changed

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