Age of Exploration

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Age of Exploration Discovery

• I. Exploration and Discovery
• 1. Italy controlled Mediterranean
• 2. Countries on Atlantic Search for new sea
  routes
• a. Holland
• b. Britain
• c. Portugal
• d. Spain
• e. France

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3. Portugal

• a. Prince Henry The Navigator (15th Century)
• b. Bartolomeu Dias
• -Cape of Good Hope 1488
• c. Vasco Da Gama
• -Around Africa to India

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3. Spain

• a. Christopher Columbus
• -travel west to India
• -ran into discovered America
• b. Ferdinand Magellan
• -1st crew to travel around the world

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4. England

• a. Henry Hudson (1609)
• -North America
• -New York (Hudson River)
• 5. France
• a. Jacques Cartier
• b. Samuel Champlain
• -Canada

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II. Rise of Empires

• 1. Exploration colonization
• a. Spanish Empire
• -Mexico, Central America,
• Philippines
• b. French Colonies
• -Canada Mississippi River
• c. Holland
• -South Africa, Caribbean,
• Indonesia, Sri Lanka
• d. Great Britain
• -North America (now U.S.)
• Caribbean, India

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II. Rise of Empires Continued

• 2. Reasons to Come to the New World
• a. Religious Freedom
• b. Cheap Land
• c. Spread Christianity
• 3. Effects of Colonization
• a. New Wealth
• b. New Crops
• c. New Conflicts
• -Europeans V. Natives
• -Europeans V. Europeans
• -7 Years War