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Explorers and Explorations
C 17 S. 1 & 2
• Explorers sailed around the southern tip
of Africa looking for a route to China &
India.
– Bartholomeu Dias
– Vasco da Gama
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Navigation
• Science of planning and directing the
route of a ship
• Arab Merchants controlled the land
routes to China and India in the 1300s
and 1400s?
• Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal
set up a school of navigation.
• Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu
Dias -first European to sail around
the tip of Africa.
• Named Cape of Storms
• Renamed Cape of Good Hope by King
John II
China
• Explored seas between 1405 & 1433
• Indian Ocean
• East coast of Africa
• Queen Isabella financed Columbus’s
voyage to reach India.
• Portugal was given control of trade in
Africa in the 1450’s.
• Spain was given control of lands to the
west
• Portugal was given control on lands to
the east
• Portugal and Spain met and gave
Portugal could control Brazil
• Portugal sponsored Vasco da Gama’s
trip around Africa in 1498
• Spain sponsored Magellan’s trip around
the world in 1519
• Da Gama reached India in May 1498.
• Spain and the Dutch traded in Canton,
China.
• Portugal traded in Macau, China.
• European explorers went to the Indies
for Pepper.
• Pepper only grew in India and Java.
• Ferdinand Magellan was the first
attempt to sail around the world. He set
sail from Portugal in September 1519
with five ships.
• Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
• Only 18 of the 265 men completed the
journey.
• The journey took 3 years and proved
the world is round, there is more water
than land on Earth.
• Four Continents were explored by
Spain, Portugal and Italy.
The West Indies
India and the Philippines
South America
Africa
• First navigation instrument
– compass
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Exploration
Expedition
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