Exploration

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Exploration

• SS7
• Mrs. Curley
• Dates

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KQ What developments/inventions helped the
Exploration Boom (to the New World)?

• 15th century 1400s
• Compass helps find direction helped travel
  become safer
• Navigation tools helped measure latitude
  longitude, find location
• astrolabe, sextant measured latitude
• chronometer measured longitude
• Maps more accurate
• Better ships for safer, longer travel
• Marco Polo wrote a book about his experiences
  and riches in Asia encouraged other explorers
• Prince Henry the Navigator organized
  exploration brought together map makers, ship
  builders, ship captains, explorers,
  mathematicians
• Constantly improving maps, rebirth of scientific
  map making

astrolabe
chronometer
Marco Polo
compass
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KQ Who was Christopher Columbus?

• Columbus failed in his original goal (to reach
  the East Indies by sailing west)
• Accomplishments
• Claimed new land for Spain
• Improved maps (explored all the
  islands/S.America)
• Established the 1st Spanish colony which led to
  permanent and continued colonization

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KQ What were the explorers looking for? (3 Gs)
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KQ What did individual explorers accomplish?

• John Cabot (1497) 1st European explorer to land
  in North America (Canada) claimed Canada land
  for English
• Amerigo Vespucci (1499) explored north coast of
  South America for Italy many people read his
  maps and books the New World was named after
  him (America)
• Juan Ponce de Leon (1513) looking for the
  Fountain of Youth named and claimed Florida
  for Spain
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1513) 1st European
  explorer to see Pacific Ocean from west coast of
  North America explored for Spain
• Ferdinand Magellan (1519) 1st explorer to
  circumnavigate the world 1st all water route to
  Asia sailed for Portugal
• Sir Francis Drake 2nd explorer to
  circumnavigate the world sailed for England

Cabot
Vespucci
Ponce de Leon
Balboa
Magellan
Drake
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KQ What did the explorers actually accomplish?

• Failures
• No cities of gold
• No short cut or NW passage to Asia
• Exploration

• Successes
• better understanding of globe
• Better maps of world
• New World is colonized trade()

Colonization
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KQ Who were the Vikings?

• Who? viking piracy
• Fighters, explorers, artisans, craftspeople,
  conquerors, invaders
• 1st explorers to N.America
• When? AD 800-1100, beginning of Middle Ages
• Where?
• Conquered England, N.America, Greenland from
  Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Finland)
• settled in English places
• What? Learning about Vikings through artifacts,
  graveyards in England
• seagoing adventurers
• raided other lands left behind artifacts
• archeologists found burial grounds in England
• Why imp.? How?
• 1st explorers to N. America (before Columbus)