New World Exploration

U.S. History- Mr. Cummings

An Age of Exploration• 1250-1600• Renaissance/Scientific

Rev. inspire exploration• Why Explore?

– Power: land=respect– Glory: Conquer for God– Slavery: free labor=

more money– Spices: Europeans

tired of using salt

–MONEY

Problems

• Maps inaccurate– Took decades to change

• Simple Technology– Astrolabe, Compass, Stars

• Explorers unprepared for dangers

• “Fear of the unknown”• Scurvy: not enough vegetables

Influences Inspire Exploration

• Borrowed knowledge from Asia, Africa + Middle East

• Eratosthenes • Marco Polo• Ptolemy

– Created very accurate map: 150 AD

– Lost after Romans fell in 500 AD

Columbus

• Hopes to find all-water route to India

• 1492: lands in San Salvador- thinks he’s in India- calls Natives “Indians”

• Makes 3 voyages for Spain- dies believing he made it to India

Ferdinand Magellan

• Searched for passage to Pacific Ocean

• 1521: killed in Philippines

• Crew 1st to circumnavigate the world

John Cabot

• English Explorer• 1497: Discovers

Newfoundland• Thinks it’s Asia:

WRONG!!!!• Gave England

claim to North America

Vasco de Gama

• 1497: Sails around Cape of Good Hope

• Finally discovers all-water route to India!!!

Sir Francis Drake

• Pirate paid by England to steal Spanish gold

• 1579: accidentally discovered California after he stole Spanish ship

• 1st ship to sail around the world w/o death of their leader

1621

1660

Effect of Explorations

• Europe: opened new chances for wealth, land, power– Europe forgets East/colonizes West– Holland, France, England

command worldwide trade

• Natives: lives changed forever– Many died from contact with

Europeans- DISEASE– 50% of population dies w/in 100

yrs

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