The Age of Exploration

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The Age of Exploration

• The Age of Exploration

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Essential Questions

• What is the New World?
• Who discovered this New World?
• When was the New World discovered?

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Marco Polo

• 1271-1295
• First land route to China
• Linked Europe with Mongol Empire
• From Italy

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Christopher Columbus

• 1492
• Columbus discovered North America
• Thought he was in India
• He lands in the Caribbean
• From Spain

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Vasco da Gama

• 1497
• Rounded the Cape of Good Hope
• Explored Indian Ocean
• From Portugal

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John Cabot

• 1497
• Thought Asia was West
• Discovered North America (New Found Land)
• From England

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Ferdinand Magellan

• 1519 - 1522
• First crew to Circle the Globe
• Left with 270 men 5 ships
• Returned with 18 men 1 ship
• Born in Portugal, sailed for Spain
• Named the Pacific Ocean because it was Peaceful

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Hernando Cortes

• 1519
• Set sail for Mexico with 11 ships, 600 sailors, 5
  small cannons and horses
• Heard stories about a huge and wealthy Aztec
  Empire in Mexico
• Conquered the Aztec empire of 5 million people.
• As result, they got lots of gold

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Jacques Cartier

• 1534 Frenchman, set off to find a Northwest
  Passage
• 2 ships and 60 men
• Reached Newfoundland and sailed around its
  northern tip
• On land her set up a cross and claimed the area
  for France
• Kept looking for a Northwest passage. Found a
  river flowing west from the gulf. Thought its
  might lead to the Pacific
• Named the river the St. Lawrence River

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Henry Hudson

• 1609 Dutch trading company hired him to search
  for a NW passage
• Discovered Hudson Bay
• Claimed New Amsterdam (New York)
• Crew was unhappy with him so they set him adrift
  in a boat

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