Monday Oct 3
• Objective: Explain the major countries and people involved in
exploration.
1. CBM
2. Finish posters
3. Use posters to complete explorers chart
4. Countries chart
5. Exploration videos
6. HW: Map
Name and Country
Destination/Route
Area Landed
Accomplishments
Calicut, India (SW
Coast of India)
- Brought back spices
- Established direct sea
route to India
Christopher
Columbus/
Spain
1492 – Sailed west
across Atlantic Ocean
in search of an
alternate trade route
to Asia (East Indies)
Bahamas in Caribbean
Sea
- Claimed Caribbean
Islands for Spain
- Started process of
colonization
Hernando
Cortes/Spain
1519 – across the
Atlantic Ocean into the
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
- Conquered the Aztecs
Francisco
Pizarro/ Spain
1532 – across the
Atlantic Ocean
through Caribbean
Sea & Panama Strait
to South America
Peru
- Conquered the Incas,
captured Cuzco &
Cajamarca
Ceuta, North Africa
- Helped conquer Ceuta,
North Africa
- 1419 – founded a
navigation school in SW
Portugal
1498 – Sailed around
Vasco da Gama/
Africa through Indian
Portugal
Ocean to India
Prince Henry
the Navigator/
Portugal
1415 – War in North
Africa
Name and Country
Ferdinand
Magellan/
Spain
Francis Drake/
England
Destination/Route
Area Landed
Accomplishments
- Across Atlantic around
Southern tip of S. America
to Pacific around islands
in Pacific to S. Africa to
Spain
Guam, Philippines
First crew to
circumnavigate the globe
1517 – Around S. America
through Strait of Magellan - Spanish settlements in S.
- Circumnavigated the globe
up West Coast of N.
America
- Raided Spanish
America, through
- West Coast of North
settlements
Indonesia through Indian
America
- Defeated Spanish Armada
Ocean around Africa,
- Indonesia
back up to England
- Gulf of Canada that led
1534 – North America in
Jacques Cartier/
to the St. Lawrence River
search of a sea route to the
France
- Area today known as
Pacific
Montreal
- Claimed area in North
America for France
Henry Hudson/
Netherlands
1609 – sailed west looking
for northwest sea route to
Asia
Near present-day New
York
- Explored 3 waterways
known today as Hudson
Bay, River, Strait
- Allowed Dutch to claim
areas near waterways
Bartolomeu
Dias/
Portgual
1487 – Down west coast of
Africa, around tip of
Africa
Southeast coast of Africa
Sailed around tip of Africa
Spain
• Settled
- Central & South America
- Caribbean
• Relationship with
Indigenous people
– Encomiendas
– Conquistadors
• Trade
• Conflicts
– With Portugal over land
– Treaty of Tordesillas
• Line of Demarcation
Portugal
• Settled
- Brazil
- South Africa
- Asia
• Relationship with
Indigenous people
– Asia
– Brazil
• Trade
– Spice Islands
• Conflicts
– Same as Spain
England
• Settled
– Atlantic Coast of North
America
- Barbados
- Jamaica
• Relationship with
Indigenous people
– Threat to society
– Land for tobacco
• Trade
– East India Trade Co
– Tobacco
• Conflicts
– Dutch – NY
– French & Indian War
Netherlands
• Settled
- New Amsterdam
- Aruba
- Indonesia
- Cape of Good Hope
(Africa)
• Relationship with
Indigenous people
– Cooperative
– Some conflicts
• Trade
– Dutch East India Co
• Conflicts
– Portugal – Asia
– England - NY
France
• Settled
- Mississippi River
- Canada – Montreal,
Quebec
- Haiti
• Relationship with
Indigenous people
– Cooperative
• Trade
– Fur trade
– East India Co
• Conflicts
– French and Indian War
Videos: Exploration
Magellan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6pXhZxbO
I&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1
&safe=active
America Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWLr7xTZsY&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=
1&safe=active
Country
Spain
Portugal
England
Netherlands
France
Settlement
Areas
- Central & South
America
- Caribbean
- Brazil
- South Africa
- Asia
Relationship with Trade
Indigenous
People
Conflicts
Conquered Aztecs in
and Incas in Peru
Encomiendas
- With Portugal
- Treaty of Tordesillas split
globe – Portugal-east; west
N/A
Took Spice trade from - Trade posts in
Asians
Spice Islands
- Spices were
available at 1/5 of
the prices
- Atlantic Coast of
- Many religious
- East India Trading
North America
settlers saw the
Company – used
- Barbados
natives as a threat to for cloth
- Jamaica
society
- Tobacco from
- Wanted land for
Americas
tobacco crop
- New York
- Cooperated because - Dutch East India
- Aruba
of fur trade
Trading Company –
- Indonesia
- Some conflicts over kicked Portugal out
- Cape of Good Hope land rights
(Africa)
- Mississippi River
- Cooperated because - Fur traders
- Canada –
of fur trade
- French East India
Montreal, Quebec
- Natives trapped
Company
- Haiti
animals and traded
for French goods
- See conflicts Spain
- Kicked Dutch out of
- French and Indian War –
control east ½ of North
America
- Left New York to Englad
- Took control of Asia from
Portugal
- French and Indian War vs
– lost control of Eastern
half of N America
Exit Ticket
Which country was most accomplished during
Exploration? Why?
Which explorer made the biggest contribution
to exploration? Why?
How would exploration been different if Spain or
Portugal had not been involved?