EXPLORERS & THE

COLUMBIAN
EXCHANGE
Thinking Back
• Who can name one of the explorers
we studied yesterday?
Henry the Navigator
•  1364-1460

•  Portuguese Prince

•  1418 opened school for

Navigation.

•  Encouraged exploration
of Africa’s coast and the
“Sea of Darkness”.
Christopher Columbus
•  1451-1506

•  Italian explorer

•  “Discovered” (not really)

the Americas.

•  Was looking for a shortcut

to China and Asia.

•  He’s the reason we call

native Americans “Indians”.
Ferdinand Magellan
•  1480-1521.

•  Portuguese explorer.

•  1st person to circumnavigate

the globe.
•  Go all the way around the
globe.

•  Entire crew almost died of

starvation.

•  He was killed in battle shortly

before arriving home.
Why Explore?
•  Primary reason:
•  $$$$ - find new
trade routes! (Gold)

•  Secondary
reasons:
•  Spread Christianity
(God)
•  Glory- gain honor
for their countries.
The Columbian Exchange
•  Columbian Exchange: exchange of plants, animals, and
ideas between the New World (Americas) and the Old
World (Europe).

•  Begun by Columbus
•  Drastically changed lives all over the world.

•  Gave us the hamburger.

•  Changed Italian Food into what it is today!
•  Exchanges of ideas and culture around the world!
Columbian Exchange
Sent to New World Sent to Old World

•  Bananas, oranges, onions, •  Beans, corn, peanuts,

lettuce. pineapple, pumpkins,
tomatoes, chocolate.
•  Cows, horses, sheep, pigs,
chickens
•  Turkeys, tobacco,
potatoes.
•  Rice, wheat, sugar

•  New Diseases and Plague!!!

•  Many natives die as result.
Columbian Exchange