The Age of Exploration

-Sailed west to find India
-Didn’t find India, landed in the Caribbean (Hispanola)
-Called the people natives Indians
-Brought back exotic plants, animals, and Native Americans
-thought that he was in India

He figured out that christopher columbus didn't land in India in 1502

Portuguese by birth, but sailed for Spain
-sailed west to go around the world
- left Spain in 1519 with 5 ships & 250 men & only 18 original members of the crew made it back to Spain
-Magellan died in a fight in the Philippines, but his crew became the first people to circumnavigate the globe

-Dutchman sailing for England
-tried to go North to find a Northwest passage to Asia
-found nothing but ice, went back to England
Sailed for Dutch after sailing for the English
-tried to find the Northwest Passage again, didn’t find it
-BUT he did find the Hudson Bay, Hudson River, and the land the Dutch called New Netherlands (New York)

Spanish conquistador, conqueror of Peru; founder of Lima, Peru. From 1530 to 1533, he conquered the Inca Empire.

Spanish conquistador; from 1519 to 1521, he defeated the Aztec Empire, conquering Mexico for Spain.

Spanish missionary and historian; he sought to protect Native Americans from Spanish mistreatment by replacing them as laborers with imported African slaves.

-a Portuguese Prince
-surrounded himself with navigators, sailors, mapmakers, etc.
-supported exploration in hopes of finding water routes to Asia & Africa

A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain

brought from Muslim empires
-used to calculate location based on position of sun & stars

- light, fast sailing ships
-very maneuverable: steered with a rudder at the stern
-had Lateen sails:.
-might be equipped with weapons, so the ship could defend itself from pirate attacks
-most popular ship for exploration

triangular shaped sails that could catch the wind at any direction

Towards the end of the 1500’s, European countries began exploring new lands and expanding their territories with colonies

(1494) the agreement between Spain and Portugal that created an imaginary north-south line dividing their territory in the Americas; all of the land that was west of the line belonged to spain while the land to the east of the line belonged to the Portugal

The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa beginning with the voyages of Columbus