New World Explorers Overview Motives For Exploration Money

New World Explorers

Overview

Motives For Exploration • Money • Curiosity • Fame • Religion • Faster, Cheaper trade Routes • National Pride • Foreign Goods

Ok the last slide is a little on the simple side so explain what were the motivators for Exploration?

First Guys • The First Explorers – Eskimos & Aleuts (Native Americans) – Japanese & Chinese Fishermen – West Africans (Olmec Legend) – European Vikings • Thorfinn Karlsefni –mapped part of North American coast – Tried to settle Newfoundland

The Vikings • Eric the Red (c. 960) -brought family from Norway to Iceland, then settled in Greenland • Leif Eriksson (c. 1000) -landed in present-day Newfoundland -only remained three years

EXPLORATION & CONQUEST • The European Explorers / 15 & 16 th centuries – Portugal – the African Coast & Route • Prince Henry the Navigator – 30 voyages along the African Coast • Bartholomeu Dias – Cape Good Hope 1488 • Vasco De Gama – Calicut, India 1498 • Pedro Cabal – East South America 1500 – The Brazilian Mistake • Colonies in West Africa, the Persian Gulf, Macao, and Brazil

Christopher Columbus • Read Marco Polo’s Travels – it sparked his imagination • Idea: travel West to get East

The World’s Biggest Secret

Christopher Columbus • Read Marco Polo’s Travels – it sparked his imagination • Idea: travel West to get East • Portugal said “NO” but Spain said “YES” • October 12, 1492 Columbus lands on a small island in the Bahamas • Columbus dies never knowing he did not land in India

EXPLORATION & CONQUEST • Motivational Factors European Exploration in the Americas 2. Establishment of new trade routes and national claims of territories • Existing routes were expensive and dangerous due to pirates & wars • Monopolized by Italian merchants who functioned as middlemen in trade between Europe & Asia

Conflict Over The Americas *Line of Demarcation -Pope Alexander Vi draws a line 300 miles west of the Azores Islands *Treaty of Tordesillas -Moved the Line of Demarcation 650 miles further west

The Three G’s of Spanish Conquest Gold God Glory

Spanish Conquistadors • Juan Ponce de Leon – 1513 -explored and claimed Florida • Hernando Cortez – 1519 -conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico • Francisco Pizarro – 1533 -conquered the Inca empire in South America

Horrible Histories Pizzaro

• Giovanni Verrazano-1524 -sailed the east coast of North America The French: Early • Jacque Cartier-1534 -6 Exploration -explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed the Grand Bank • Samuel de Champlian-1603 -8 -founded Quebec and the colony of New France established

The French: Later Exploration • Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette – 1673 -explored up the Mississippi River • Robert La Salle – 1682 -claimed and named the Louisiana Territory

The English: Better Late than Never • John Cabot -tried to find route to China only found Newfoundland • Henry Hudson -explored Hudson Bay

Who Claimed What? • Russia -Alaska • Portugal -Brazil • France -Most of Canada -Louisiana Territory • England -The east coast of N. America from Spanish Florida to French Canada • Spain -The west coast of the Americas from northern California to Tierra del Fuego