Reasons for European Exploration

1
Reasons for European Exploration
Ch. 2, Lesson 1 EQ What are the consequences
when cultures interact?
2
Home Learning Ch. 2, Lesson1 Vocabulary (Index
Cards)

• technology
• compass
• strait
• Circumnavigate
• Columbian Exchange (found in your reading)

3
Bell Ringer Dangerous Voyages

• Pretend that in the year 2050 you will make a
  voyage (journey) to outter of space. What kinds
  of equipment would you need to take? What are the
  risks of such a journey? What would make people
  want to make such far away voyages?
• Early European explorers made voyages across the
  Atlantic Ocean to the New World.

4
Look at pg. 40 in your textbook.
5
Why do Europeans explore the New World?

• For the Three Gs
• GOLD
• GOD
• GLORY

6
For Gold!

• People during this time wanted to trade to make
  profit ()

7
For Glory!

• Rulers of Spain, France, and Portugal hoped to
  extend their influence and power through
  exploration.  
• Monarchy government ruled by kings or queens.

8
For God!

•  European missionaries, sought to
  spread Christianity to the New World

9
Christopher Columbus

• Italian navigatorseeks help from Spain to sail
  to the Indies (Asia).
• Queen Isabella of Spain fund his expedition. Why?
  
• Bring Christianity to any lands
• Find new route to Asia, Spain would grow rich
  from trade
• Columbus set out from Spain in August October
  12, 1492, he landed in the Bahamas.
• He went ashore, claimed the island for Spain, and
  named it San Salvador
• http//www.learn360.com/McGrawHillPlayer.aspx?ID1
  39086pt1

http//www.history.com/topics/exploration/christop
her-columbus/videos/columbus-ships-are-marvels-of-
engineering?m528e394da93aesundefinedf1freef
alse
http//videos.huffing tonpost.com/politics/-the-re
al-story-of-columbus-517998547
10
Cause and Effect

• Read pg. 42-43

11
Advances in Technology

• New TECHNOLOGY helped Europeans explore the
  world.
• -shipbuilding improvements
• -COMPASS (from China)
• -quadrant
• -astrolabe
• http//www.history.com/topics/exploration/christop
  her-columbus/videos/columbus-uses-the-skies-to-sur
  vive

astrolabe
quadrant
12
Other Explorers

• Amerigo Vespucci sailed along South America's
  coast in 1502.
• America is named after him.
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa explored Panama in Central
  America.
• He discovered the Pacific Ocean.

13
Sailing Around the World

• 1520, Ferdinand Magellan reached the southern tip
  of South America.
• He sailed through a strait and named the ocean
  the "Pacific."
• Magellan died during the voyage, his crew reached
  Spain in 1522.
• His crew were the first known people
  to circumnavigate  or sail around, the world.
• http//www.biography.com/people/ferdinand-magellan
  -9395202/videos/ferdinand-magellan-mini-biography-
  39300675603

14
Cause and Effect

• Read pg. 43-46

15
The Columbian Exchange

• A movement of living things (plants, people,
  animals, and diseases) between the Eastern and
  Western hemispheres is called the Columbian
  Exchange.

16
The Columbian Exchange
17
Columbian Exchange Negative Effects

• Smallpox, measles, and influenza killed many
  Native Americans who had no immunity towards
  these diseases.
• Europeans decreased Amerindian populations by 90
  to 95 between the years 1519 and 1619.

18
Positive Effects in the Americas

• Europeans brought plants and animals to the
  Americas.
• Cattle, pigs, and horses all thrived in the
  Americas.
• Grapes, onions, and wheat, also thrived in the
  Americas.

19
Positive Effects in Europe

• The Columbian Exchange benefited Europe, too.
• Corn and Potatoes from the Americas helped feed
  European people and improve their diet.

20
Columbian Exchange Positive or Negative

• Make a list of the positive and negative effects
  of the Columbian Exchange.
• In your opinion was the Columbian Exchange a
  positive or negative event. Provide two reasons
  to support your opinion.