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Exploration
Why People Explore
•France
•England
•Spain
•Portugal
Europe
England
France
Spain
Portugal
Who were the rulers of the nations of Europe?
By adding overseas
colonies to their
empire.
Early World Map:
Includes just Europe,
Africa, and part of
Asia.
Many believed the
earth was flat.
Bishop Pierre d’ Ailly’s book change the way
people viewed the earth.
• He said the
earth was round,
not flat.
Explorers of North
America
The Age of Exploration
Leif Ericson
The Vikings
reached North
America five
hundred years
before
Columbus
Discovering North America
• 982 Erik the Red
founded Greenland.
• Leif Erikson later landed
on North America.
Claudius Ptolemy 87-150AD
• An Italian explorer
• First person to realize that the Americas were
separate from the continent of Asia.
• America was named for him in 1507
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
(1475-1519)
• Spanish conquistador
and explorer.
• First European to see the
eastern part of the Pacific
Ocean (in 1513)
Magellan
• Searched for passage to
Pacific Ocean
• Sailed through “straits of
Magellan”
• Crew first to
circumnavigate the world
Cabot
• First white
man to sail
into the New
York Harbor
and see the
Hudson River
Juan Ponce De Leon
1460? - 1521
• a Spanish explorer and
soldier
• First European to set
foot in Florida.
• Established the oldest
European settlement in
Puerto Rico
• Discovered the Gulf
Stream (a current in the
Atlantic Ocean).
• Was searching for the
legendary Fountain of
Youth and other riches.
Hernando Cortes
•First
European to
travel the
length of the
Amazon
River
Sir Francis Drake
•Voyages: South
America, Strait of
Magellan.
•Famous for: In 1577
Drake made his voyage
around the world in
Golden Hind.
Female Pirates
.
•The life of a pirate or merchantman
offered:
• a steady income,
• Adventure
• freedom from social expectations.