Age of Exploration

Explorers, Settlements, Maps & Motivation

Beginning in the 1400’s Europeans set forth in

a great wave of exploration and trade European motivations: GOD, GLORY & GOLD

Spread of Christianity Spreading European nations’ territory and

controlling new lands Muslims controlled many trade routes Profit through trade in goods such as gold,

silver, sugar, and spices

Exploration

Explorers

1. Christopher Columbus

Lived 1451-1506 He was hoping to

find a route to India (in order to trade for spices).

He made a total of four trips to the Caribbean and South America during the years 1492-1504.

Columbus led an expedition with three ships, the

Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria and about 90 crew members.

They set sail on Aug. 3, 1492 from Palos, Spain, and on October 11, 1492 landed in San Salvador in Central America Columbus thought he had made it to a section of Asia

known as the Indies, and called its inhabitants Indians. Here: Columbus’s men met the Taino Indians, many

of whom were captured by Columbus' men and later sold into slavery.

Columbus, Cont.…

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Columbus Expedition

2. Hernando De Soto

Hernando De Soto (1500?-1542) was a Spanish explorer who sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to explore Florida and the southeastern US.

As Hernando and his men traveled they gave misery to tribes they encountered (the Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw). De Soto and his men

burned villages, stole food, and killed or captured thousands of people.

Hernado De Soto Cont….

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan was the leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate (sail the circumference of) the world.

He was the first European to sail across the Pacific Ocean and discovered a route by which ships could sail a complete circle around the world.

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Magellan’s Expedition

1. GOD:

The Crusades pushed Christians to feel it was their duty to spread their religion and convert people to Christianity (and not to be Muslim)

2. GLORY: Being “The FIRST!”

Find an spice Find a area Create a trading port

Expanding the home country’s territory

God, Glory & Gold

3. Gold

Wealth New spices in were

introduced in Europe during the Crusades = high demand for the spices.

Europeans wanted to cut out the middle man by

trying to find new trade routes to make it easier to get to the spices

Italianssell it

to Europe for

MORE $$$

Europe buys

it for a higher price

Muslims sold Spices to Italians

for lots of $

The Columbian Exchange

The Lost Colony was a group of 100 or so

colonists sent to establish England's first permanent colony in the New World.

Due to various circumstances, the colony did not reach its planned destination, the Chesapeake Bay.

The colony was left on Roanoke Island without any English contact for three years and disappeared. No one knows for sure what fate they encountered .

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The Lost Colony