Portuguese and Spanish Explorers

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(Portugal) (Spain)

Portugal

The Portuguese were the first to begin exploring because of the caravel.Key Person Area Explored

Motivation Impact

Prince Henry ·Called "The Navigator"·Did not actually sail.

·Wanted to encourage trade with Africa and the Indies

·Set up a school for navigation.(the practice of plotting a course at sea).

Bartholomeu Dias

·Western coast of Africa

·Trying to reach Asia by water

·First to reach the southern tip of Africa

Vasco da Gama

·Indian Ocean and India

·Establishing water trade route to India

·Portugal became wealthy from trade with Asia

Prince Henry "the Navigator" who

encouraged expeditions to explore

the coast of Africa

Bartholomeu Dias sailing around the

southern tip of Africa

Vasco da Gama successfully made the trip to India to

open up trade

Spain3 Motivations: Gold, Glory, & God

Key People Area Explored Motivation Impact

Christopher Columbus (Italian)

·Sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean·Founded New Spain (Hispaniola)

·Wealth·Personal Fame

·First European to report back land west of Europe.· Abused Native Americans and his crew

Bartolomé de Las Casas

·Not an explorer·A Catholic priest

·Wanted to help Native Americans

·Helped end the use of Native Americans as slaves (encomienda)

Ponce de Leon ·Florida ·Looking for mythical "Fountain of Youth"

·Claimed Florida for Spain

Hernando de Soto

·Mississippi River ·Gold and land ·Claimed much of Eastern North America for Spain

Francisco Coronado

·Southwestern US

Looking for "7 Cities of Gold"

·Claimed much of western North America for Spain·Discovered Grand Canyon

Christopher Columbus

(Cristóbal Colón)

Bartolomé de Las Casasseeking reforms for better treatment of Native Americans

Las Casas wanted to end

the encomienda

system

Ponce de Leon in searchof the "Fountain of Youth"

Expeditions of de Soto 1539-1543

Hernando de Soto and his men explored

much of the southeastern US and the Mississippi River

Francisco Coronado sought the mythical "7

cities of gold." He never found them but his men did find the Grand

Canyon

Key Vocabulary

Nationalism: pride in, or devotion to one's country

Encomienda: the right given to a Spaniard to demand taxes or labor from Native Americans that he was to take care of and convert to Christianity

Plantation: a large estate farmed by many workers