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Chapter 2

Chapter 2. Age of Exploration. Essential Vocabulary 1 Chapt 2, Sect 2. Christopher Columbus King Ferdinand Queen Isabella Line of Demarcation Treaty of Tordesillas Viceroy Convert. Essential Vocabulary 2 Chapt 2, Sect 3. Vasco da Gama Amerigo Vespucci Balboa Magellan

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Chapter 2

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  1. Chapter 2 Age of Exploration

  2. Essential Vocabulary 1Chapt 2, Sect 2 • Christopher Columbus • King Ferdinand • Queen Isabella • Line of Demarcation • Treaty of Tordesillas • Viceroy • Convert

  3. Essential Vocabulary 2Chapt 2, Sect 3 • Vasco da Gama • Amerigo Vespucci • Balboa • Magellan • Circumnavigate • Strait • Pedro Cabral • John Cabot

  4. Essential Vocabulary 3Chapt 2 Sect 4 • Columbian Exchange • Northwest Passage • Jacques Cartier • Samuel Champlain • Henry Hudson

  5. Why were the Europeans Exploring? • Trying to break the monopoly of the Muslims on trade with the east Desire to make MONEY! Review: Define Monopoly • Trying to spread Catholicism following the Protestant Reformation Review: What German man started the Reformation? • The Renaissance caused a desire to learn more • They had new technology like:

  6. Portugal began the Age of Exploration • Who was the Prince who started the Navigation School in Portugal? • Who was the Portuguese explorer who found a route from Portugal to the tip of Africa? • Vasco da Gama- Portuguese explorer who found a sea route from Portugal to India • Pedro Cabral –Portuguese explorer blown off course and landed in current day Brazil

  7. Spain wanted to compete with Portugal • King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain sent out Christopher Columbus to find a sea route to Asia • 1492- Columbus sailed with three ships: Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria • Landed in Bahamas in Caribbean Sea • Eventually made four voyages to the New World • What did Columbus find? • Indigenous people (Mayans) were highly developed society completely isolated from Europe

  8. Spain & Portugal both want to trade with Asia • Line of Demarcation: Pope negotiates a deal between Spain and Portugal to split the world between the two of them. • Treaty of Tordesillas- 1494- Portugal was unhappy with the Pope’s Line of Demarcation and negotiated to move the line west so that Portugal would have current day Brazil

  9. Line of Demarcation moved west to new Treaty of Tordesillasso that Portugal could have Brazil

  10. More Spanish Explorers after Columbus • Vasco Balboa- Spanish explorer in Central America who saw the Pacific Ocean from the Western Hemisphere • Ferdinand Magellan- Spanish Explorer- his crew was the first European to circumnavigate the globe (go around the world) • Had to cross the Atlantic then took a month to get through the Straits of Magellan at the southern tip of South America • Magellan got into a fight with natives in Philippines and was killed • His crew continued home to Spain- 18 of the original 250 crew members survived the three year voyage • Amerigo Vespucci- Italian who sailed on Spanish ships-his notes were entertaining and a mapmaker used his name to label the new continents of North and South America

  11. Magellan’s Route to circumnavigate the world

  12. Other Countries began ExploringSearch for a Northwest Passage-sea route across North America • France sent out explorers to find Northwest Passage • Jacques Cartier- French Explorer who sailed to Canada and St. Lawrence river • Samuel de Champlain- French Explorer who returned to Canada and explored Great Lakes and founded city of Quebec • England sent out explorers to find Northwest Passage • Henry Hudson- English explorer who sailed to present day New York • No one ever found a Northwest Passage, but voyages did spark interest in more explorations

  13. Effect of Age of Exploration: Columbian Exchangeexchange of plants, animals and diseases between Europeans and native Americans

  14. Columbian Exchange • Positive Effects? • Negative Effects?

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