The World As They Know It

North Point

Pacific Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Africa

Europe

North America

South America

Asia

Oceania

Antarctica

Northern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

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Christopher Columbus

Reasons for exploration1.New trades and new trade routes and new goods.

2.Seaching for lots of gold and silver and treasures and riches.

3.Looking for new species of animals and to learn about nature and the new part of the world.

4.Land they found for they country and for the age of discovery.

5.They want to test they limits and to be the first in the world to do some thing.

6.They spread Christianity to the Native America.

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6th October The first stop was at Canary Islands to get more supplies.

2th January he went to what he thought was China. But he actually found new land.

Impacts on society 1.Both groups learnt about new animals, plants and products.

2. Europeans took things back to Europe and they spread to other parts of the world .

3.Things from around the world arrived in the Americas.

4.The Europeans started to explore and set up colonies in the Americas.