Christopher Columbus was sponsored by Spain to find a new trading route to Asia Magellan was the second European to circumnavigate the world John Cabot was from England who was the first man from England to find Canada ID: 239148
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True or False?
Christopher Columbus was sponsored by Spain to find a new trading route to Asia.
Magellan was the second European to circumnavigate the world.
John Cabot was from England who was the first man from England to find Canada?
Prince Henry rarely sailed himself, often sending others.
Prince Henry’s goal for expeditions was to spread
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slam.Slide2
On the Agenda
Tracing the Routes of Key Explorers
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to work on Student Vocabulary Dictionary (SVD)
Study for Quiz on FridaySlide3
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Quiz over Explorers, Explorers Routes, Prince Henry, Causes of Age of Exploration, and Key VocabularySlide4
Interactive Notebook
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will be
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Summarize sentences are to be completed on the back of the
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Christopher Columbus
From Italy
Sponsored by Spain and Queen Isabella in 1492
He hoped to reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic.
The voyage lasted longer than expected (several months), but landed in the Bahamas.Slide6
Magellan
Portuguese Sailor
Wanted to sail around the world, called circumnavigate.
Sailed west from Spain towards the tip of South America into the Pacific Ocean
First European to sail in the Pacific and reach Asia by traveling west
He was killed in the Philippines, about half way through his journey with a conflict with natives.Slide7
Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake,
was
an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and
politician.
Drake
carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete it as captain and leader of the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation
.
His
exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El
Draque
. King
Philip II was said to have offered a reward of 20,000 ducats
, about US$6.5M
by modern standards, for his life.Slide8
Bartolomeu Dias
Dias also spelled Diaz
born
c. 1450—died May 29, 1500, at sea, near Cape of Good
Hope.
Portuguese
navigator and explorer who led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope (1488), opening the sea route to Asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans
.
He
is usually considered to be the greatest of the Portuguese pioneers who explored the Atlantic during the 15th century
.Slide9
John Cabot
Born
1450,
died 1499,
navigator and explorer who by his voyages in 1497 and 1498 helped lay the groundwork for the later British claim to Canada.
May
1497, however, he set sail from Bristol in the small ship Matthew, with a crew of 18 men.
He
proceeded around Ireland and then north and west, making landfall on the morning of June 24.
The
exact landing place has never been definitely established: it has been variously believed to be in southern Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island.