Age of ExplorationSSWH10 Analyze the causes and effects of exploration and expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

D a. Explain the roles of explorers and conquistadors.

D b. Analyze the global, economic, and cultural impact of the Columbian Exchange.

D c. Explain the role of improved technology in exploration.

D d. Examine the effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Africa and on the colonies in the Americas.

Vasco De Gama

• A Portugese Explorer

• Given credit for traveling around the Southern Tip of Africa, and making it

to India

• He sailed a total of 27,000 miles and his cargo was worth 60 times the cost

of his voyage.

Christopher Columbus

• Sailed from Spain in August of 1492 and made to what is now the Carribean in October of 1492.

• Was looking for a new route West to what is Now India, but in the process "discovered" the Carribean Islands of the Dominican Republic and Haiti

• Boats were called the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

• Made 4 trips to and from the "New World"

• His original plan was to travel West to get to India to buy spices from India

Ferdinand Magellan

• A Portuguese Explorer

• With 250 men and 5 boats, he sailed around South America to the Phillipines

• Magellan was killed on his voyage.

• Began his voyage in 1519 and ended in 1522

• In the end, only 18 of the 250 men lived, and only 1 of the 5 boats survived

the voyage

James Cook

• A British Sea Captain

• Claimed New Zealand in 1769 and Australia in 1770 for the British Crown

• In Australia he discovered the Aborigines, the oldest ongoing culture in the

world.

• Australia became a penal colony in 1788

Samuel de Champlain

• A French Explorer

• Sailed up the St. Lawrence River in Modern Day Canada.

• Founded the Canadian Province and City of Quebec, which became the base

for France's colonial empire known as NEW FRANCE

Columbian Exchange

• The global transfer of food, plants, and animals during the colonialization of

the Americas.

• Most important brought back from America are: corn and potatoes

• Traffic did not flow in one direction: explorers and people moved to and

from the Americas.

Columbian Exchange Impacts

• Cultural Impacts: Diseases such as small pox, measles, influenza, typhus, malaria were spread to the Americas.

• Economic Impacts:

• Rise of Capitalism – economic system based on private ownership

• Rise of Mercantilism – economic system based on the belief that a country's power comes from its wealth.

• Joint Stock Companies – investors buy shares of stock in a company

• Most famous Joint Stock Company was The East India Company

Improved Technology

• Astrolabe – sailors used

this device to measure

the height of the sun

above the horizon. They

could use to know the

time of day and the

latitude in which they

were located

African Slave Trade