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Lesson 2, A Changing World
Main Question Why did Europeans explore the
Americas, and did they find?
  • Objectives
  • Describe the aims, obstacles, and accomplishments
    of early explorers.
  • Trace the routes of the explorers and identify
    the areas they claimed.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa 1513- Balboa reaches the
Pacific Ocean
John Cabot 1497 Cabot reaches Newfoundland
Ferdinand Magellan 1522 The Magellan expedition
completes a voyage around the world.
Amerigo Vespucci
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  • Columbus returned three times to what he thought
    was the Indies
  • He never found great riches.
  • But he did show that it was possible to sail
    across the Atlantic
  • His trips inspired several European rulers to
    send ships west to claim lands.
  • Europeans will soon begin to create a new culture
    in the undiscovered Americas.

3
What Columbus was looking at, which greatly
influenced his plans. Notice Cathay, China. And
how he decided to sail south.
4
Columbus Four Expeditions
1492 1493 1498 1502
5
England sends John Cabot (Giovanni
Caboto) 1497 King Henry VII sends an expedition
to claim land
Cabot and his crew leave England, and sail far
north of Columbus. He reaches land, and claims
it for England. Naming it Newfoundland and
Labrador.
What was the aim of King Henry VII when he paid
for Cabots expedition? to help England compete
for land and wealth.
6
Lief Ericson, and the Vikings Had visited North
America almost 500 years before Columbus
7
Amerigo Vespucci, and others, did not believe
Columbus reached Asia. In 1499 he sailed to a
place just south of where Columbus had landed.
Two years later he sailed down the coast of
South America. He looked for signs that he
reached Asia, but found none. The places he saw
did not match Marco Polos descriptions of Asia.
Vespucci began to think that the world was much
larger than most people had thought. Which means,
Asia was much farther from Europe than Columbus
thought. Over time, Vespucci came to realize
that he, Columbus and Cabot had found new lands
not yet known to Europeans.
Amerigo Vespucci
8
Martin Waldseemuller publishes a new map of the
world. He names the new lands in honor of
Amerigo Vespucci.
9
Reaching the Pacific Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Balboa set up a farm on the island of
Hispaniola Was not a successful farmer He owed
people money, and decided to escape He boarded a
ship for what is present day Columbia He met
settlers of a failed Spanish settlement. And
helped them start a new settlement in present day
Panama.
Balboa and his group hear about an ocean west,
the Pacific. They proved Amerigo Vespucci was
right about an unknown continent.
10
A New View of the World
Ferdinand Magellan Also proved Vespucci was
right. In 1519, Magellan left Spain with five
ships and 250 sailors. They passed a waterway
at the tip of south America and saw the same
ocean Balboa had seen. Magellan named it the
Pacific, which means peaceful. It seemed calmer
than the Atlantic. Magellan thought he could
cross the Pacific in a few days, it took three
months. Many died of hunger and illness.
Magellan was killed in a battle in the
Phillipine Islands, but one ship of sailors was
able to make it home to Spain.
11
Magellans Expedition around the World
12
The Treaty of Tordesillas
In 1494, Spain and Portugal signed a treaty. The
Catholic rulers of these countries asked the
Church to settle a land dispute. So they drew a
line. Spain was promised land west.
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