The Age of Exploration and Colonization

By: Mr. GayaresPirate

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Current events• Rescue workers found five bodies on Tuesday

in the submerged part of the Italian cruise liner that capsized off Italy’s west coast, bringing the death toll to 11.

• The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio Island on Friday.

• Italian cave-rescue divers are painstakingly checking thousands of debris-filled cabins on the Italian liner Monday for more than 20 people still unaccounted for out of the 4,200 who were on board.

The Explorers• Portugal: leader of the exploration• Prince Henry “The Navigator” is the secret behinds Portugal’s

knowledge of seas• Places:• West Africa,• Cape of Storms (Cape of Good Hope) Bartholmeu Dias• Calicut, India by da Gama• Ternate Moluccas• Brazil by Pedro Cabral

Spain: Defender of the Catholic Faith

• Leader: King Ferdinanad and Quenn Isabella• Explorers: Christopher Columbus-discovered

the “New World”• Magellan: Philippines• Hernando Cortes: Mexico (aztecs)• Pizarro: Peru (Inca)• Hernando de Sotto: Florida

Dutch

• Dutch East India Company (1602)• Dutch West India Company (1621)• Monopolized the trade with Japan and Asia• Did not send any missionaries to their colonies• Indonesia

English

• John Cabot: Newfoundland (America)• Henry Hudson• Founded Jamestown (1607)• Religious freedom: Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers,

Roman Catholics

France

• Jacques Cartier: New France (Canada)• Samuel de Champlain: Quebec • Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette : wisconsin

and Mississipppi• Robert de La Salle: Louisiana