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New World Exploration
U.S. History- Mr. Cummings
An Age of Exploration• 1250-1600• Renaissance/Scientific
Rev. inspire exploration• Why Explore?
– Power: land=respect– Glory: Conquer for God– Slavery: free labor=
more money– Spices: Europeans
tired of using salt
–MONEY
Problems
• Maps inaccurate– Took decades to change
• Simple Technology– Astrolabe, Compass, Stars
• Explorers unprepared for dangers
• “Fear of the unknown”• Scurvy: not enough vegetables
Influences Inspire Exploration
• Borrowed knowledge from Asia, Africa + Middle East
• Eratosthenes • Marco Polo• Ptolemy
– Created very accurate map: 150 AD
– Lost after Romans fell in 500 AD
Columbus
• Hopes to find all-water route to India
• 1492: lands in San Salvador- thinks he’s in India- calls Natives “Indians”
• Makes 3 voyages for Spain- dies believing he made it to India
Ferdinand Magellan
• Searched for passage to Pacific Ocean
• 1521: killed in Philippines
• Crew 1st to circumnavigate the world
John Cabot
• English Explorer• 1497: Discovers
Newfoundland• Thinks it’s Asia:
WRONG!!!!• Gave England
claim to North America
Vasco de Gama
• 1497: Sails around Cape of Good Hope
• Finally discovers all-water route to India!!!
Sir Francis Drake
• Pirate paid by England to steal Spanish gold
• 1579: accidentally discovered California after he stole Spanish ship
• 1st ship to sail around the world w/o death of their leader
1660
Effect of Explorations
• Europe: opened new chances for wealth, land, power– Europe forgets East/colonizes West– Holland, France, England
command worldwide trade
• Natives: lives changed forever– Many died from contact with
Europeans- DISEASE– 50% of population dies w/in 100
yrs
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