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Section 1 Voyages of Discovery
Main Idea: During the 1400s and 1500s European explorers sailed to unknown lands
Foundations -Renaissance = new ideas, new thinking, new inventions -Reasons for exploration: -Money -Spices, silk, etc from Asia were desirable and expensive -Explorers tried to find faster routes -Fame and glory -Spread Christianity -Curiosity -Technological advances -Compass -Astrolabe (calculate position based on the sun and stars) -Better ships -Caravel (fast and light)
Explorers from Portugal and Spain -Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal) -Helped support explorers (school for sailors) -Wanted to find a water route around Africa to Asia -Bartolomeu Dias (1488) (Portugal)à1st to sail around Cape of Good Hope -Vasco da Gama (1497) (Portugal)àSailed around Africa to India -Pedro Cabral (Portugal)àSaw and claimed Brazil before going to India -Portugal established trading camps in India (made lots of $$$$) -Christopher Columbus (1492) -Sailed west to reach Asia -Made 4 voyages -Amerigo Vespucciàrealized land was not Asia but new land -Vasco Balboa (1513) -Crossed the Isthmus of PanamaàFirst European to see Pacific Ocean -Ferdinand Magellan (1519) -Wanted to go west around the world -Lots of problems (mutiny, attacks) -Died along the way -Some of his sailors made it back to Europe 3 years later)
Other Explorers -English -John Cabot (1497) -Sailed to Canada -Sir Francis Drake -Sailed along western coast of the Americas -Went west to get back home -Henry Hudson (1607) -Wanted to find Northwest Passage -Explored Canada’s interior -French -Jacque Cartier (1534) -Sailed into St. Lawrence River (Canada) -Claimed land for France
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