Age of Exploration

European Explorers

Prince Henry the Navigator

Home: Portugal Sailed for: Portugal Years: Starting in 1419 In search of:

Sailing into the Atlantic Spreading Christianity Take of Muslim domination of trade

Arrived: Down the coast of West Africa

Prince Henry the Navigator

Bartolomeu Dias Home: Portugal Sailed for: Portugal Years: 1487 Searching for:

a route around Africa’s southern tip into the Indian Ocean

Used the counterclockwise winds of the South Atlantic to get around southern Africa

Bartolomeu Dias

Vasco da Gama Home: Portugal Sailed for: Portugal Years: 1498 Searching for: India and trade Arrived: India Found: discovered India and opened a

profitable trade

Vasco da Gama

Christopher Columbus

Home: Italy Sailed for: Spain Years: 1492 Searching for: a route to China as means of reviving

the Christian struggle against Islam Arrived: in current day Bahamas (then Haiti and DR) Found: NOT AMERICA!! He opened up the door of exploration

Christopher Columbus

John Cabot Home: Genoa, Italy Sailed for: English Years: 1497 Searching for: to discover the other

continents Arrived: in Newfoundland

John Cabot

Pedro Alvarez Cabral Home: Portugal Sailed for: Portugal Years: 1500 Searching for: new continents Arrived: discovered the coast of Brazil

Pedro Alvarez Cabral

Amerigo Vespucci Home: Genoa, Italy Sailed for: Italy Years: 1501 Searching for: new continents Arrived: explored enough of South America’s

coast to deem it a new continent Mapmakers began to call the continents by a

variation of his first name----America

Amerigo Vespucci

Ferdinand Magellan Home: Sailed for: Years: 1519-1522 Searching for: new land and continents Succeeded in encircling the entire globe This voyage created a much more detailed

picture of the Earth

Ferdinand Magellan

Hernan Cortez Born in Spain but left in 1504 for Cuba Became rich by acquiring plantations and

gold mines He wanted more so he went inland and met

the Aztec Empire The Spanish were invited into the city, then

the Spanish decided to conquer. They seized and killed Montezuma and took over but there was nothing left

Hernan Cortez

The End And we lived happily every after. Not.