Chapter 2Age of Exploration

Essential Vocabulary 1Chapt 2, Sect 2

1.Christopher Columbus

2.King Ferdinand3.Queen Isabella4.Line of Demarcation5.Treaty of Tordesillas6.Viceroy7.Convert

Essential Vocabulary 2Chapt 2, Sect 3

1.Vasco da Gama2.Amerigo Vespucci3.Balboa4.Magellan5.Circumnavigate6.Strait7.Pedro Cabral8.John Cabot

Essential Vocabulary 3Chapt 2 Sect 4

1.Columbian Exchange2.Northwest Passage3.Jacques Cartier4.Samuel Champlain5.Henry Hudson

Why were the Europeans Exploring?

1.Trying to break the monopoly of the Muslims on trade with the eastDesire to make MONEY!Review: Define Monopoly

2.Trying to spread Catholicism following the Protestant ReformationReview: What German man started the Reformation?

3.The Renaissance caused a desire to learn more

4.They had new technology like:

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

Spain wanted to compete with PortugalKing 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

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

Line of Demarcation moved west to new

Treaty of Tordesillas so that Portugal could have Brazil

More Spanish Explorers after ColumbusVasco 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 voyageAmerigo 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

Magellan’s Route to circumnavigate the world

Other Countries began ExploringSearch for a Northwest Passage-sea route across North AmericaFrance 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

Effect of Age of Exploration: Columbian Exchange

exchange of plants, animals and diseases between Europeans and native Americans

Columbian ExchangePositive Effects?

Negative Effects?