Age+of+Exploration

**400 to 1500**  **Ayushi and Elsa**
 * 1) [[image:wyhs-ap-euro/AgeExpMap.jpg width="359" height="212" align="left" caption="Map of Age of Exploration"]]  **Age of Exploration**

**For a very long amount of time, Europeans had mainly remained in one area of the world. At the end of the fifteenth century, Europeans had set out on a series of overseas journeys.** **Marco Polo had traveled to the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. He wrote down his account of experiences known as The Travels. Soon, merchants, adventurers, and state officials began to think of expanding trade East and also finding precious metals. By now, Europeans have accomplished a level of technology that helped enable to make voyages beyond Europe, thus introducing the Age of Exploration. ** **Portugal** **began the European exploration and under sponsorship of Prince Henry the Navigator, fleets began heading towards the western coasts of Africa. There they discovered gold. Then, the southern coast of west Africa became know to the Europeans as the Gold Coast. In 1488, Bartholomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope. Later, Vasco da Gama went around the cape and cut across the Indian Ocean to India. Portuguese fleets soon gained control of the spice trade, which was controlled by the Muslims. Later, the Portuguese sailed eastward. **  **One of the most famous figures in the history of Spanish exploration was an Italian by the name of Christopher Columbus. Columbus persuaded Queen Isabella of Spain to give money to the expedition. In 1942, he reached the coastline of Cuba and the island of Hispaniola. In all of Columbus's four voyages he reached all the major islands of the Caribbean and Honduras in Central America. He later called these the Indies. The Treaty of Tordesillas stated that there be a line that would extend from the north to south through the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern part of the South American continent. East of the line would be controlled by Portugal, and west of the line to be controlled by Spain. Other explorers during the race to the Americas was a Venetian seaman, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">John Cabot, who explored the New England coast line for England. A Florentine, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Amerigo Vespucci, wrote letters describing the lands he saw. These letters soon led ** **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">to the name 'America' for the new lands. **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**5 TERMS:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">** 5 PEOPLE: **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Treaty of Tordesillas: signed at Tordesillas, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal  **
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Gold Coast: The western coasts of Africa where the Europeans found gold during the late 1400's **
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Cape of Good Hope: A mountainous promontory south of Cape Town, South Africa; sailed around for the first time by Vasco da Gama in 1497.  **
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The Travels: Book about the travels of Marco Polo when he visited China during the thirteenth-century **
 * 5) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Colony: a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Christopher Columbus: Italian Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but found the Americas instead.**
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**John Cabot: Explored and discovered parts of North and South America in 1497 for England**
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Amerigo Vespucci: Described the land he saw during the Elizabethan Era; the Americas were named after him**
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Prince Henry the Navigator: Sponsored the voyages across the Atlantic Ocean and sent voyagers across to discover new land for his kingdom**
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Queen Isabella: Queen of Spain during the 1490's and gave money towards Christopher Columbus's expedition**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** "After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished. "** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">** ~Christopher Columbus **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__**LINKS:**__
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__European Explorers__This site talks about the explorers of early Europe and what they did.**
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1492 ExhibitThis site is about the voyages taken during the year 1492.**
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**London's Top Ten Age of Exploration This site is about the top 10 things that London has from during the Age of Exploration**
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Marine's Museum This museum is about the Age of Exploration and what it did during that time**
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Age of Exploration This has all the rulers during the time of European exploration**

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1492-Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1497-John Cabot and Amerigo Vespucci explore the Americas** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1518-First boat of slaves are brought directly from Africa to the Americas** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1519-Spanish begin conquest of Mexico** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1520-Magellan sails into Pacific Ocean** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1595-First Dutch fleet arrives in India** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1630-English found Massachusetts Bay Colony** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1650-Dutch occupy Portuguese forts in Indian Ocean trading areas** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1700-English establish colonial empire in North America**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1767-Burmese sack Thai Capital **

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