Map Study: European nations
create empires in North America
Empire
The Quest for Empire
You will need your spiral, pen and map pencils for
this activity.
The Quest for
Trace the outline of the map of the western Hemisphere on page___
in your spiral. Place the map along the top edge of your spiral.
Trace the map of Europe on page _____ in your spiral. Place
the map along the top edge of your page.
Print the labels as shown here.
Great Britain
France
Portugal
Spain
Italy
Print labels as shown here
New France
(Canada)
English Colonies
New Spain
Present day
Brazil
Henry wanted to find a water route to
India. The passage to India over land was
long, slow, and dangerous. A ship could carry
more goods to and from India than the largest
caravans, but Europeans could only guess that
sailors could circumnavigate, or go around,
Africa. Prince Henry helped unlock the secrets
of Africa. Henry set up a school for sailors to
learn the secrets of the ocean. He paid for
many sailing expeditions out of the Portuguese
treasury. Henry also employed cartographers
who created the most sophisticated maps of
their time. The maps made it possible for
sailors to learn from previous expeditions.
Circumnavigate- to sail around the world
Cartographers- map makers
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Portugal
Color Portugal orange
Portugal
Goal: Control
sea trade with
Africa
Circled Africa in 1488
Color Italy purple
Draw a red line from Italy to Spain
Italy
Christopher Columbus goes to
Spain with plans to sail around the world
Columbus was born in 1451, in Corsica and grew up
in Genoa He was the oldest of five children.
As a child, he helped his father as a weaver. He always
liked the sea.. Genoa was an important seaport.
There is no doubt that as a child he caught rides on
ships. He had little schooling but was a genius with
the sea. His plan was not to prove
that the world was flat, but it was to find a shortcut to
the Spice Islands. He wanted to establish a city
there for trade, seaports, and much more.When he
grew into a man he was interested in sailing to Asia
by going west. First he went to the king of Italy and
presented his idea before him. Italy wasn't looking
or a way to Asia, they were still receiving riches from
their old trade routes.
This panel depicts Queen Isabella listening attentively to Columbus's
explanation of his map, with King Ferdinand at her side. On April 17,
1492, the agreement to finance the voyage was signed.
Beside this panel are figures of Alonzo d’Ojeda, a Spanish adventurer
who accompanied Columbus to the New World, and Queen Isabella.
Columbus reaches America in 1492
Spain:
Goals= 3 G’s
Gold
God
Glory
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Aztec Empire
Nina
Cortez conquers Aztec
Empire, 1521
Cortez sails to Mexico, 1519
Spain’s Policy:
-convert Indians
--make them Spanish citizens
--obtain wealth and power
Pinta
Santa
Maria
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The King and Queen of
Spain rewarded Columbus
by granting him a title of
nobility and giving him
permission to create a
coat of arms.
Columbus would make a
total of four voyages to
the New World and was
appointed governor
of the Spanish colony in
Hispanola. His leadership
was quite poor and he was
replaced.
Disagreements soon arose between Spain and
Portugal over who could claim newly discovered
lands for their empires.
Both nations were Catholic.
Both considered the Pope the final authority.
Popes had already decided questions of territorial
conflict between them.
The pope decided to draw a line of demarcation to separate the two
empires. The pope's line ran from the arctic pole to the Antarctic,
one-hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde
Islands. Anything to the west of that line belonged to Spain.Anything
to the east, belonged to Portugal. The exception was if any other
Christian king or power already held lands within
those areas by Christmas day, 1493.
Demarcation- dividing line
Draw a purple line on your map as shown here.
Line of Demarcation
Pope gives all land to the
east to Portugal and all
land to the west to Spain
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Francis Drake
Label map and add details as shown
Great Britain
Cabot sails to North
America in 1497
Goal: Find more
resources and
wealth
Great Britain’s Policy:
- remove all Indians
- get resources ( trees)
Giovanni da Verranzano
In 1524 Verranzano explored the New
World for France. He searched for a route
to the Indies through the continent.
Verranzano sailed up and down
the East Coast of America looking for a
passage that would take him further
west. He could not find one so he
returned to France.
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Verranzo
Label as shown
Verranzano sailed to
North America in 1524
France::
Goals: Obtain wealth,
Make trade
agreements
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Cartier
Jacques Cartier
In 1534 Cartier tried to find a sea passage
to the East Indies through North
America. He could not find a river that
would take ships west from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Instead he
discovered the St. Lawrence River. The
which much sooner than Cartier expected
on a high hill which Cartier named Mont
Real or King's Mountain in honor of the
King of France. Mont Real later became
Montreal. Cartier named the
area New France and claimed it in the
name of the King of France.
Cartier took colonists to C ape Rouge
near Quebec but the colony was a failure.
After this France lost interest in Canada.
It would be more than 70 years
before another Frenchman came to the
mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
In 1682, La Salle led an expedition that followed the Mississippi
To the Gulf. He claimed all land (including Texas ) for France.
Label as shown
France’s Policy:
Establish friendly trade with Indians
Trade for wealth (furs)
Cartier claimed land
for New France in 1534.
La Salle claimed more
Land in 1682