Warm Up: Review from Part One
• Use your notes from Part One and answer these questions
on ½ sheet of notebook paper.
1. Who was the first European explorer to reach India
and why was this important?
2. Name three new pieces of technology used in the
Age of Exploration.
3. What was Magellan famous for?
4. Who were the new continents of America actually
named for?
5. Why were they not called Columbus Land??
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Answers:
1. Who was the first European explorer to reach India and
why was this important? Da Gama and this new sea route
would allow Portugal to import spice to Europe for 1/5 of
the cost! $$$$
2. Name three new pieces of technology used in the Age of
Exploration. Compass, Astrolabe, Caravel Ship
3. What was Magellan famous for? First man to sail around
the world (some what if you forget the dying part…)
4. Who were the new continents of America actually named
for? Amerigo Vespucci
5. Why were they not called Columbus Land?? A German
mapmaker labeled them such and it stuck.
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Yes, I know theirs a plane here,
tough! Look at the boat….
Unit 3
Note Page 3
Other Explorers
You only need to copy
the notes that are in
YELLOW!
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Jacques Cartier
• 1534 – For France discovers St. Lawrence
River leads to Montreal. First uses the
name “Canada!”
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• 1608 – Samuel de Champlain – Another
French man claims the Quebec region,
names it “New France”
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• 1683 – Sieur de La Salle – Explores from Great
Lakes to Gulf of Mexico, along the Mississippi
River, named it Louisiana territory.
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• The French were there to make money, not
built new settlements and colonize!
• 1760 – French pop only 65,000 mostly men.
• There as missionaries and fur traders. Very,
very few French for such a HUGE area.
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Video Clips for French
Explorers
• Jacques Cartier
• Mini Biography
• Samuel de Champlain
- Mini Biography
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The Spanish Conquer Central
and South America….
• Hernan Cortés will arrive in 1517 to
crush the Aztec Empire of Mexico,
not with his army of only 400 men,
but with small pox.
• In 1517, the Aztec Empire was
estimated to contain 25 million
people. Fifty years later, it held
barely a few million people………
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• Francisco Pissarro will arrive South America
in 1524 to begin his conquest of the mighty
Inca Empire in the Andes Mountains. He will
ship so much gold and silver back to Spain that
it will destabilize the entire economy of
Europe for years to come.
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• Spaniard Hernando De Soto – 1540 Landed in
Florida, looking for gold. March army across
land, destroying natives / spreading disease. He
died on Miss. River, only ½ army survived.
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• Francisco Vasquez de
Coronado, 1540 -1543
• just use his last name….
• His army explored
much of the Southwest,
• AZ, NM, TX, CA
• First European to
• see the Grand Canyon.
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• We can’t leave out Ponce de León
• He came with Columbus on his 2nd. Voyage
and stayed. He was a leader in Spanish
military. Led expeditions across the islands
in the Caribbean hunting for gold, silver,
pearls, and the rumored fountain of youth.
Really all he ended up doing was enslaving
and slaughtering thousands of the native
people. He was extremely good at it and
often promoted for it. He landed twice in
Florida looking for riches and fountain but
was eventually killed by a poison arrow
from a native. Not the happy story you
thought it was, was it?
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Compare the two images of Ponce de Leon’s encounter with natives…
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Video Clips for Spanish
Explorers
• Hernando de Soto Mini Biography
• Francisco Vazquez de
Coronado - Mini
Biography
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GREAT BRITAIN JOINS THE
RACE FOR COLONIES…..
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John Cabot – The King of England
thought Columbus had discovered a
western route to Asia. He sent Italian
John Cabot across the Atlantic thinking
(North America) was Asia. 1497 His first ship turned back after only a
few days due to storm damage.
1497 – 2nd. Trip, crew 18 men made it to
Nova Scotia Area, claimed it for King
of England.
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• 1498 – 3rd. trip 5 ships / 300 men. One ship
turned back early due to damages, other 4
ships never heard from again…. Opps.
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Henry Hudson
• British, looking for a Northwest
water passage to go around the
top of North America to reach
Pacific Ocean.
• Slight problem, run into
ARTIC! Ice…..
• On fourth voyage, crew
mutinied. He and son set
adrift….
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• John Collier's
painting of
Henry Hudson
with his son
and some crew
members after
a mutiny on his
icebound ship.
The boat was
set adrift and
never heard
from again.
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Voyages of Henry Hudson
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Video Clips for British
Explorers
• John Cabot - Mini
Biography
• Henry Hudson- Mini
Biography
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Sir Francis Drake
Early life as a Pirate and
Illegal slave trade.
Picked in 1577 to lead English expedition
around the world. Took 3 years.
Knighted in 1581. Died 1596.
Worked exclusively for Queen Elizabeth I,
attacking Spanish ships coming from
America and stealing their gold and silver.
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He was knighted in 1581 after successfully sailing around the world.
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He was instrumental in defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588
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Sir Walter Raleigh
 Favorite military man of
Queen Elizabeth, fought in
Ireland. Knighted in 1585.
 Sea Captain, Adventure.
Funded the start of Roanoke Colony in North
Carolina. Later “Virginia” after virgin queen.
 1594 Went to Venezuela looking for “El
Dorado” (city of gold)
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Video Clips for British
Explorers
• The Life of Sir Walter
Raleigh
• Sir Francis Drake
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• So as you can see,
SEVERAL
European Countries
laid claim to the
New World. Not
just the British.
This will enrich the
culture of America
but cause the near
extinction of the
Native Americans.
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