European Exploration

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European Exploration

• Why and how was this possible?
• 1 Reason--TRADE

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First Europeans in the Americas

• Leif Ericsson in Newfoundland c. 1000

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Advanced Technology

• Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) of
  Portugal
• Navigation Compass and Astrolabe
• Shipbuilding Caravels and Carracks

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Mappamundi by Mauro, 1459
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galleon-caravel-carrack
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Map by Martellus 1489
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• Cristobal Colon (Columbus) at San Salvador 1492
• John Cabot discovers Grand Banks 1497

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More reasons

• Christian Crusades perks
• Marco Polo returned from China 1295
• Journals published in 1477
• Reconquista ended in 1492
• Renaissance ideals

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• Rise of Monarchies England, France, Spain,
  Portugal, Netherlands
• Demographic crises end of Bubonic Plague or
  Black Death 1350-1500
• Protestant Reformation 1520 Luthers 95 Theses

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Creating an Atlantic World

• The Sea Ocean took on many names before
  becoming the Atlantic OceanWhy?

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Tabula Terre Nove Martin Waldseemüller, 1513
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Peter Apianus, 1520
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Creating an Atlantic World

• Diogo Ribeiro 1529

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Sebastian Münster c. 1545
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After Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon in Florida 1515
• Cortes and the Aztecs 1519
• Hernando de Soto Southeastern exploration 1540
• St. Augustine founded 1565
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Southwestern
  exploration 1540
• Jacques Cartier 1524 Atlantic Coast
• Walter Raleigh and Roanoke Island 1584

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