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New World Explorers
Overview
Motives For Exploration
• Curiosity
•Religion
•National Pride
•Money
•Fame
•Foreign Goods
•Faster, Cheaper trade Routes
Ok the last slide is a little on the simple side
so explain what were the motivators for Exploration?
First Guys
• The First Explorers– Eskimos & Aleuts (Native Americans)– Japanese & Chinese Fishermen–West Africans (Olmec Legend)– European Vikings• Thorfinn Karlsefni –mapped part of
North American coast –Tried to settle Newfoundland
The Vikings• Eric the Red (c. 960)
-brought family from Norway to Iceland, then settled in Greenland
• Leif Eriksson (c. 1000)
-landed in present-day Newfoundland
-only remained three years
EXPLORATION & CONQUEST
• The European Explorers / 15 & 16th centuries– Portugal – the African Coast & Route
• Prince Henry the Navigator– 30 voyages along the African Coast
• Bartholomeu Dias – Cape Good Hope 1488
• Vasco De Gama – Calicut, India 1498
• Pedro Cabal – East South America 1500
– The Brazilian Mistake
• Colonies in West Africa, the Persian Gulf, Macao, and Brazil
Christopher Columbus
• Read Marco Polo’s Travels – it sparked his imagination
• Idea: travel West to get East
The World’s Biggest Secret
Christopher Columbus• Read Marco Polo’s
Travels – it sparked his imagination
• Idea: travel West to get East
• Portugal said “NO” but Spain said “YES”
• October 12, 1492 Columbus lands on a small island
in the Bahamas• Columbus dies never
knowing he did not land in India
EXPLORATION & CONQUEST
• Motivational Factors European Exploration in the Americas
2. Establishment of new trade routes and national claims of territories• Existing routes were expensive and
dangerous due to pirates & wars• Monopolized by Italian merchants who
functioned as middlemen in trade between Europe & Asia
Conflict Over The Americas*Line of
Demarcation
-Pope Alexander Vi draws a line 300 miles west of the
Azores Islands
*Treaty of Tordesillas
-Moved the Line of Demarcation 650
miles further west
The Three G’s of Spanish Conquest
Gold
Glory
God
Spanish Conquistadors
•Juan Ponce de Leon –1513 -explored and claimed
Florida
•Francisco Pizarro –1533
-conquered the Inca empire in South America
•Hernando Cortez – 1519
-conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico
The French: Early
Exploration
•Giovanni Verrazano-1524
-sailed the east coast of North America
•Jacque Cartier-1534-6
-explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed the Grand Bank
•Samuel de Champlian-1603-8
-founded Quebec and established the colony of New
France
The French: Later
Exploration
•Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette – 1673
-explored up the Mississippi River
•Robert La Salle – 1682
-claimed and named the Louisiana Territory
The English:
Better Late than Never
•John Cabot
-tried to find route to China only found
Newfoundland
•Henry Hudson
-explored Hudson Bay
Who Claimed What?
• Russia-Alaska
• Portugal-Brazil
• France-Most of Canada
-Louisiana Territory
• England-The east coast of N. America from Spanish Florida to French Canada
• Spain-The west coast of the Americas from northern California to Tierra del Fuego