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Before we get started, it’s time for
a warm-up activity!
You will have 10 minutes
to read a passage and
write a summary in your
breakout room.
LEWIS & CLARK
Use your typing tool to summarize the passage in the space below.
Hey! Hey!
USA
Let’s discover…
EXPLORERS
today!
Materials
For class each week
you will need:
• your SLASH notebook
• a pencil
• colored pencils or
crayons
• glue
• your brain
Vocabulary
exploration: to go into or travel
over for purposes of discovery or
adventure.
Vocabulary
trade: the business of buying and
selling items.
Vocabulary
conquistador: a leader in the
Spanish conquest of America in the
16th century.
Vocabulary
Age of Discovery: marking the time
in which extensive overseas
exploration emerged as a powerful
factor in European culture.
Vocabulary
theory: an explanation based on
observation, experimentation, and
reasoning.
EARLY
EXPLORATION
What information can you gather about early North
American migration from the graphic below?
EARLY
EXPLORATION
What information can you gather about early North
American migration from the graphic below?
The Land Bridge Theory
This theory claims that people
migrated from Siberia to Alaska
during the Ice Age. The first
people to populate the Americas
were believed to have migrated
across the frozen Bering Land
Bridge while tracking large game
animal herds.
EARLY
EXPLORATION
What information can you gather about early North
The
Solutreanmigration
Theory
American
from the graphic below?
New archaeological evidence
suggests that North America was
first discovered by Stone Age
hunters from Europe. This
hypothesis claims that Ice Age
Europeans crossed the North
Atlantic Ocean along the edge of
pack ice that extended from the
Atlantic coast of France to North
America during the last glacial
maximum.
In the late 1400’s, trade became a growing
business between Europe and Asia.
Europeans wanted to find a shorter route to
Asia and many explorers set off to try to
find one.
Top 5 Reasons For
European Exploration
1
2
To find a new passage to the Far East for trade.
To find gold, silver, precious gems and other
valuables.
3 To claim new lands for their countries.
4 To convert people to Christianity.
5 For adventure.
A few of the
EXPLORERS
who influenced early American
history are…
Leif Eriksson
Around A.D. 1000, Eriksson sailed to Norway, where King Olaf I
converted him to Christianity. On his way back to
Greenland, Eriksson sailed off course and
landed on the North American continent,
where he explored a region he called
“Vinland” (because the land was covered
with wild grapes). After spending the winter
in Vinland, Leif sailed back to Greenland,
and never returned to North American
shores. He is generally believed to be the
first European to reach the North American
continent, nearly four centuries years before
(?-1020)
Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.
Christopher
Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who
sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.
He was commissioned by Spain to find a
route to India in order to trade for spices.
He made a total of four trips to the
Caribbean and South America during the
years 1492-1504. He is commonly described
as the discoverer of the New World.
Although Columbus was in search
of a westward route to Asia by sea, the
discoveries he did make were more
important and valuable than the route he
failed to find.
(1451-1506)
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who was the
first person to realize that the Americas were separate
from the continent of Asia. On an
expedition for Portugal in 1501-02, he
mapped some of the eastern coast of
South America, and came to realize that
it not part of Asia, but a New World.
America was named for him in 1507,
when a German mapmaker, printed the
first map that used the name America
for the New World.
(1454-1512)
Would you join an
exploration if…
You had no idea
where you were
going or if you
would get there?
JUAN Ponce de
León
Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish
explorer and soldier who was the
first European to set foot in Florida.
He also established the oldest
European settlement in Puerto Rico
and discovered the Gulf Stream (a
current in the Atlantic Ocean).
Ponce de Leon was searching for
the legendary fountain of youth and
other riches.
(1460?-1521)
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés was an adventurer and conquistador
born in 1485 in western Spain. Cortes sailed
with 11 ships from Cuba to the Yucatan
Peninsula to look for gold, silver, and other
treasures. Hearing rumors of great riches,
Cortés traveled inland and discovered the
capital of the Aztec empire. He killed the
Aztec emperor Montezuma and claimed all
of Mexico for Spain in 1521. Treasures from
the Aztecs were brought to Spain, and
Cortés was a hero in his homeland. Cortés
was appointed governor of the colony of
New Spain.
(1485 - 1547)
Would you join an
exploration if…
you heard the sea was
full of serpents?
Hernando de
Soto
De Soto was born in the Spanish province of
Extremadura. In 1536, Spain granted De Soto
the rights to conquer Florida and was named
governor of Cuba in 1537.
De Soto arrived on the west coast of Florida
on May 30, 1539 with 10 ships carrying over
600 soldiers, priests, and explorers. They
spent four years searching for gold and silver
and exploring the area. De Soto died during
the explorations and was buried on the banks
(1500?-1542)
Francisco Vasquez de
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Coronado
(1510-1554) was a Spanish ruler,
explorer and conquistador. He was
the first European to explore North
America's Southwest. With a group
of hundreds of Spaniards he traveled
through what is now northern
Mexico and the southwestern USA
(including Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas). Since
he did not find gold, silver, or other
treasures, his expedition was branded
a failure by Spanish leaders.
(1510-1554)
Would you join an exploration if…
there was a chance you might find
gold, silver and precious gems?
Henry Hudson
Hudson was an English navigator and explorer
who, sailing three times for the English and
once for the Dutch, tried to discover a
northern route to the Pacific coast of Asia
known as the "Northwest Passage." He traveled
up the Hudson River in 1609 and reached what
is now Albany, New York. In 1611, after
wintering on the shore of James Bay, Hudson
wanted to press on to the west, but most of his
crew mutinied. The mutineers cast Hudson, his
son and 7 others adrift. They were never seen
again. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and
Hudson Bay are named for Henry Hudson.
.
(1565-1611)
Robert de La
Salle
Robert Sieur de La Salle was a French
explorer. 1n 1682, he was sent by King Louis
XIV to travel south from Canada and sail
down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of
Mexico. He was the first European to travel
the length of the Mississippi River. His
mission was to explore and establish furtrade routes along the river. La Salle named
the entire Mississippi basin Louisiana, in
honor of the King, and claimed it for France
on April 9, 1682. He also explored Lake
(1643-1687)
What adjective would you use
to describe the explores we
discussed today?
How did these explorations
have an impact on our
country’s history?
SLASH
ASSIGNME
NT
Complete the Explorer
notebook page and type
up a summary of
information about an
explorer of your choice.
THANKS!
Please complete this week’s
assignment before Friday.