Ch. 10: Exploring America

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Ch. 10 Exploring America

• Vocabulary
• isthmus, Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto,
  Vasco Núnez de Balboa, Francisco Pizzaro

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Christopher Columbus

• Columbus was the first European explorer to try
  to sail around the world.
• Sailed on the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.
• Landed in the islands of the Bahamas.
• Given credit for discovering the New World.
• He was trying to get to the East Indies for
  spices and silks.
• Thought he made it, so he called the natives he
  saw Indians.
• Remember In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

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Hernando de Soto

• de Soto landed in Florida with an army of 600 men
  and 200 horses.
• He was searching for gold, silver, and any other
  valuable resources he could find.
• He was the first European to travel to the
  Tennessee region.
• He never found any riches.
• He and his men did map out large areas of the
  Southeastern North American wilderness.
• de Soto killed many Native Americans in this area
  and caused trouble between Europeans and natives
  that lasted for a very long time.

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Vasco Núnez de Balboa

• In 1513, while living on his plantation, on the
  island of Barbados, Balboa was accused of treason
  back in Spain.
• He had to prove his loyalty to the king, or he
  would have been killed.
• The king of Spain had heard of an ocean on the
  other side of the New World.
• He told Balboa to go find this new ocean.
• Balboa crossed the isthmus of Panama and found
  the ocean.
• He called it the Mar del Sur (Southern Sea).
• Later on, Ferdinand Magellan would rename it the
  Pacific Ocean.

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Francisco Pizarr o

• After Balboa found the Pacific Ocean, Spain
  started sailing up and down the coast of North
  and South America.
• Pizarro, was told about an empire in South
  America that had a huge amount of gold.
• He found the Incan Empire in the Andes mountains.
• He told them he wanted to discuss peace between
  Spain and the Inca.
• The leader of the Inca, Atahualpa, met with
  Pizarro, unarmed.

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Francisco Pizarr o

• At the meeting, Pizarro sent a friar to ask
  Atahualpa if he would convert to Christianity.
• Atahualpa said no.
• The friar told Pizarro, that because the Inca
  would not convert to Christianity it would be
  okay to attack them.
• Pizarros men jumped from their hiding places and
  attacked Atahualpas Incas, killing over 2000 of
  them in the first fight.
• They then conquered the Incas and made them into
  slaves.

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Routes of the Explorers Columbus
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Routes of the Explorers de Soto
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Routes of the Explorers Balboa
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Routes of the Explorers Balboa
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Questions about Chapter 10

1. Why did Pizarro search for the Incan Empire?
2. When Columbus landed in the Bahamas, where did he
   think he had landed?
3. What was de Soto hoping to find on his
   expedition?
4. What did Balboa name the ocean he found?
5. When did Columbus get credit for discovering the
   New World?