Explorers and Explorations
-
Upload
kathleen-hensley -
Category
Documents
-
view
25 -
download
2
description
Transcript of Explorers and Explorations
Explorers and Explorations
C 17 S. 1 & 2
• Explorers sailed around the southern tip of Africa looking for a route to China & India. – Bartholomeu Dias– Vasco da Gama
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/LMwebpages/252.html
Toscanelli’s Map 1474
Navigation
• Science of planning and directing the route of a ship
• Arab Merchants controlled the land routes to China and India in the 1300s and 1400s?
• Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal set up a school of navigation.
• Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias -first European to sail around the tip of Africa.
• Named Cape of Storms• Renamed Cape of Good Hope by King John II
China
• Explored seas between 1405 & 1433
• Indian Ocean
• East coast of Africa
• Queen Isabella financed Columbus’s voyage to reach India.
• Portugal was given control of trade in Africa in the 1450’s.
• Spain was given control of lands to the west
• Portugal was given control on lands to the east
• Portugal and Spain met and gave Portugal could control Brazil
• Portugal sponsored Vasco da Gama’s trip around Africa in 1498
• Spain sponsored Magellan’s trip around the world in 1519
• Da Gama reached India in May 1498.
• Spain and the Dutch traded in Canton, China.
• Portugal traded in Macau, China.
• European explorers went to the Indies for Pepper.
• Pepper only grew in India and Java.
• Ferdinand Magellan was the first attempt to sail around the world. He set sail from Portugal in September 1519 with five ships.
• Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
• Only 18 of the 265 men completed the journey.
• The journey took 3 years and proved the world is round, there is more water than land on Earth.
• Four Continents were explored by Spain, Portugal and Italy.
The West Indies
India and the Philippines
South America
Africa
• First navigation instrument– compass
Vocabulary
• Navigation
• Exploration
• Expedition
• Native
• Strait