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The Age of Exploration
Trade With Asia
• Silks and Spices- Europeans wanted to trade with
Asia, especially China and India. Since the Middle
Ages Europeans have being and have wanted to
trade with China.
Silk Road closed
• In 1453, the Silk Road came to a screeching halt for
European Traders.
• The Ottoman Turks Captured Constantinople.
• The land route to Asia was closed to the
Europeans.
Sea Route Possible
• Technology- Thanks to technology, the Europeans could make ocean
voyages
• 1) The Caravel Ship
• 2) The Magnetic compass
• 3) The astrolabe determined latitude.
Christopher Columbus First
Voyage
By Robert McCormack
Columbus
• Christopher Columbus sailed westward
to reach Asia. Instead he landed in the Americas*.
Columbus was significant for two major reasons:
He landed on two continents that Europe did not
know existed. He was the first person to establish a
long-term relationship between Europe and the
Americas. The sharing of goods and ideas between
the New World and the Old World is known as the
Columbian Exchange.
First Voyage
Amerigo Vespucci
Sam Mandelman
Two continents
• The two continents Vespucci traveled was
from Europe to South America.
New World
• Vespucci believed he found India but he
didn’t.
• He discovered America and called the people
“indians” because he thought he discovered
india.
• He named the land America after his first
name Amergo.
• North and South America are the two
continents.
Map of Vespucci voyage
Ferdinand Magellan
By: Eric Lohsen
Important places that Magellan passed
1. Sanlucar de barrameda
2. Canary islands
3. Cape verde islands
4. Santa lucia bay
5. Rio de solis
6. Puerto san julian
7. Ladrones islands
8. Homonhon
9. Limasawa
10. Cebu
11. Palawan
12. Brunei
13. Tidore
14. Ambon islands
15. Timore
16. Cape of good hope
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Magellan started his voyage in Portugal in the year 1519, he was also the first to
circumnavigate the globe.
He went around the Horn (southern tip of south America), through the straight of Magellan.
Then across the Pacific ocean
He also named the Pacific Ocean
When he died on the trip, 18 members of his crew finished the voyage
It’s time for Animaniacs!!!
HERNAN CORTEZ
Pedro Gil
12/19/12
1519- CORTEZ SAILED
SAILED TO MEXICO AND
CONQUERED THE AZTECS. HIS
VICTORY OPENED NORTH
AMERICA TO SPANISH RULE
Sailed through the
Atlantic
Went around Cuba
towards the Gulf
Reached Mexico
Aftermath
After he conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico,
he stole their silver and gold and had it sent
back to Spain. He also took some natives and
made them slaves after almost killing all of
them. He was known as a hero in his country.
Background Information
Born: 1485, Medelin
Died: December 2, 1547, Castilleja de la Cuesta
Nationality: Spanish
Children: 2
Books: 5 Letters
THAT’S MY PRESENTATION ON
Hernan Cortez
PIZARRO
BY: ERIC
FARNHAGEN
HIS VOYAGE!
Pizarro
Pizarro sail to Peru and
conquer the Inca.
His conquest of Peru opened
South America to Spanish
Rule.
Pizarro
Conquered Inca Empire in the Andes
Mountain of Peru.
Sent Gold and Silver back to Spain.
Jacques Cartier
By Katie Stern
John Cartier
• John Cartier was from France
• In 1535 he sailed up the St. Lawrence River to
Montreal, Canada
• He claimed that Canada belonged to France
• He sailed the waterway that connects the Atlantic
ocean to the Pacific ocean
The results of age of exploration
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Europe
Made Europe rich
Focused on trading across the Atlantic
Spain controlled the Atlantic Ocean
The treaty of Tordesillas was the pope in 1494
gave Latin America to Spain, Brazil, Africa, and
Asia to Portugal
Cartography- Mapmakers made new maps
Americans
Columbian Exchange- trade between Europe and
the Americans
Epidemics- Native people died of Europeans
diseases
Africa
The Atlantic slave trade-The Europeans enslaved
African Americans to work in America
Asia
Trading Posts- The Portuguese set up trading in Africa
and Asia
The World
Imperialism- The Europeans power over Asia,
Africa, and the Americans
Colonialism- Each had an empire of colonies.
Each took on a culture of the mother country
The Commercial Revolution- Mercantilism is
government controlled the foreign trade of the
importance of the military security of the
country