4 th Grade Social Studies Mrs Benedetto Age of Exploration What were Europeans originally looking for by sailing west Age of Exploration What was a type of ship used by the Portuguese to find a trade route by water ID: 531320
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History Meeting
4
th
Grade Social Studies
Mrs. Benedetto Slide2
Age of Exploration
What were Europeans originally looking for by sailing west?Slide3
Age of Exploration
What was a type of ship used by the Portuguese to find a trade route by water?Slide4
Age of Exploration
What continent would Europeans have to sail around to make it to India for their spices?Slide5
Age of Exploration
Who first began navigation schools and funded voyages to find the sea route to India?Slide6
Age of Exploration
What country was he from?Slide7
Age of Exploration
Who was the first Portuguese explorer to make it around the tip of Africa?
1487Slide8
Age of Exploration
What was the tip of Africa called?Slide9
Age of Exploration
Who was the first Portuguese explorer to make it around the tip of Africa all the way to India?
1497Slide10
Age of Exploration
Who was the first European explorer to propose that a sea route to the East Indies could be found by sailing West across the Atlantic Ocean?Slide11
AFRICA
S
pices
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
EUROPE
NORTH AMERICA
SOUTH AMERICA
He was also the first European to reach the
Americas and set up trade with the natives.
Where did he think he was?
Where did he really land?
Guess who sailed the ocean-blue in 1492?Slide12
Age of Exploration
What country funded Christopher Columbus’s expeditions?Slide13
How many voyages did Columbus make back and forth across the Atlantic?Slide14
AFRICA
S
pices
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
EUROPE
NORTH AMERICA
SOUTH AMERICA
Who was the first European (Spanish) explorer to KNOW he reached a “new world” shortly after Columbus resulting in the “new” continents to be named after him?
North
me
? Central
me
? South
me
?
Sounds good to me!
1497Slide15
Age of Exploration
What were the 3 main reasons that Europeans continued exploring and settling the Americas?Slide16
AFRICA
S
pices
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
EUROPE
NORTH AMERICA
SOUTH AMERICA
Who was the first man to circumnavigate the whole globe? (That means he made it all the way around.)
1519Slide17
Discoveries & ‘firsts’ of the Magellan
expedition:
1
st
to
circumnavigate the globe
1
st
to
go around South America,
connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
1
st
Europeans to
observe
these
new animals
: "camels without humps (
llama & alpaca
), “black geese" which had to be skinned instead of plucked (
penguins
)
1
st
Europeans to
find new galaxies
only visible from the Southern Hemisphere
1
st
to approximately
measure the size of the Earth
: over 43,000 miles
1
st
to realize the need for an
international dateline
. When they arrived back in Spain, they realized that they were a day off the calendar from everyone else. This phenomenon caused great excitement at the time, to the extent that a special delegation was sent to the Pope to explain it to him
.
Be ready to answer a constructed response about Magellan.