The Age of Exploration

Voyages of Discovery

Ms. Ellzey

Voyages to Discovery
What caused the Age of Exploration?
1. Renaissance = spirit of discovery 2. Search for wealth
People want to find a faster way to India to get trade goods

3. Advances in Technology

Three Gs: Gold, God, & Glory

Routes to India
Sail east around Africa (New Idea) Sail westOpps New World

New Technology
Explorers needed to calculate their location with a
Compass Astrolabe
Developed by Muslim Empires

New Technology Cont

Explorers needed a ship that can hold large cargos and withstand heavy waves
Caravel- was a light, fast sailing ship
Steered with rudder Triangular Sails Equipped with cannons

Portuguese Explorers
Portugals Kings were patrons of the explorers
King Henry the Navigator- ultimate goal was to find a water route around Africa to India.

Portuguese
1. Bartolomeu Dias (map on next slide)
First European to attempt to sail around the southern tip of Africa Cape of Good Hope

Portuguese Explorers Cont

2. Vasco de Gama
First to make it to Clicut, India and back to Portugal!

Portuguese Explorers Cont

3. Pedro Cabral
Second trip to India! Sailed to Brazil and Indonesia!
Lucrative trading posts

Spanish Explorers
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella helped finance certain voyages! 1. Christopher Columbus (1492)
Columbus sails west to get to Indiainventive idea but flawed because the Americas are in the way!
Sails to Caribbean Islands Finds Indians and he believes he found new route to India!

Columbus Route

Spanish Explorers Cont..

2. Amerigo Vespucci
First to realize that Columbus found a New World, Americas named after him.

Spanish Explorers Cont

3. Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Tried to find passage at Isthmus of Panama. Spanish realize theres another ocean to cross to get to India.
First to reach Pacific Ocean from New World Panama Canal today!!!

Spanish Explorers Cont

4. Ferdinand Magellan
Sails west to sail AROUND WORLD! Circumnavigate- sail completely around the world.
Left with 250 men, and returns with only 18 (Minus Magellan, he dies during voyage)

English Explorers
English
1. John Cabot, sailed to Canada

English Explorers Cont

2. Sir Francis Drake, sailed to southern tip of South America and stopped over in modern day California.
#2 to circumnavigate the world.

English Explorers Cont

3. Henry Hudson
Tried to find Northeast Passage, but found ice instead. Not the last time well see Hudson.

French Explorers
French
1. Jacques Cartier (1534 1535)
Sailed into the St. Lawrence River in Canada New France or Newfoundland
Fur Trade is very profitable.

Dutch Explorers
Dutch
1. Henry Hudson (Again, but for different country) Explored Hudson Bay region, in search of Northwest Passage

Henrys search for the Northeast Passage

Explorers find new ways to make new routes Cant Go Over It. Cant Go Under It. Cant Go Around It. Got to Go Through It.

Making Contact!
The beginning of conquest and colonies occurs when explorers get off their ships in search of riches and land to claim for country!
Cortes (Aztec Empire) Pizarro (Inca Empire)

REMEMBER
3 Gs: God, Gold, & Glory

Thats All Folks