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Age of Exploration
European Explorers
Prince Henry the Navigator
Home: Portugal Sailed for: Portugal Years: Starting in 1419 In search of:
Sailing into the Atlantic Spreading Christianity Take of Muslim domination of trade
Arrived: Down the coast of West Africa
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartolomeu Dias Home: Portugal Sailed for: Portugal Years: 1487 Searching for:
a route around Africa’s southern tip into the Indian Ocean
Used the counterclockwise winds of the South Atlantic to get around southern Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama Home: Portugal Sailed for: Portugal Years: 1498 Searching for: India and trade Arrived: India Found: discovered India and opened a
profitable trade
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Home: Italy Sailed for: Spain Years: 1492 Searching for: a route to China as means of reviving
the Christian struggle against Islam Arrived: in current day Bahamas (then Haiti and DR) Found: NOT AMERICA!! He opened up the door of exploration
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot Home: Genoa, Italy Sailed for: English Years: 1497 Searching for: to discover the other
continents Arrived: in Newfoundland
John Cabot
Pedro Alvarez Cabral Home: Portugal Sailed for: Portugal Years: 1500 Searching for: new continents Arrived: discovered the coast of Brazil
Pedro Alvarez Cabral
Amerigo Vespucci Home: Genoa, Italy Sailed for: Italy Years: 1501 Searching for: new continents Arrived: explored enough of South America’s
coast to deem it a new continent Mapmakers began to call the continents by a
variation of his first name----America
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan Home: Sailed for: Years: 1519-1522 Searching for: new land and continents Succeeded in encircling the entire globe This voyage created a much more detailed
picture of the Earth
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortez Born in Spain but left in 1504 for Cuba Became rich by acquiring plantations and
gold mines He wanted more so he went inland and met
the Aztec Empire The Spanish were invited into the city, then
the Spanish decided to conquer. They seized and killed Montezuma and took over but there was nothing left
Hernan Cortez
The End And we lived happily every after. Not.