Bell Ringer S Socrative S 5 HMABOF 3

Bell Ringer S Socrative S 5 HMABOF 3

Quizzes S Exchange Quizzes with a partner

Bell Ringer S What impact would new trade routes have on Venice and Europe?

American History I Chapter 2 -3 The Race for Trade Routes S

Objective S Describe voyages of early explorers and their significance

Look up the following: S Bartolomeu Dias S Vasco da Gama S Pedro Alvares Cabral S Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) S Amerigo Vespucci S Vasco Nunez de Balboa S Ferdinand Magellan S Juan Sebastian de Elcano

Getting to Asia S King Manuel of Portugal believed that the best way to get to Asia was to go around Africa like Bartolomeu Dias S Sent Vasco da Gama

S Left Lisbon in July 1497 S Reached Calicut, India in May 1498 S He was greeted by people speaking Portuguese S Da Gama was not prepared for trading, just discovering S Made two return trips and governed a small colony

Other discoveries S Pedro Alvares Cabral. S Brazil, South America

S Giovanni Caboto- Newfoundland S John Cabot S Aided by King Henry VII of England S Amerigo Vespucci- Americas

S Vasco Nunez de Balboa- “Southern Ocean”

S Ferdinand Magellan- Renamed “Southern Ocean” to “Pacific Ocean” S Peaceful S Strait of Magellan S Killed in the Phillippines S Ships returned in September of 1522 S Left in May 1519 S Only 18 of the 240 men returned alive