AGE OF EXPLORATION

LEIF ERIKSSON

• Son of Erik the red
• Sailed to west Norway
• Was a Viking

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• Sailor from Genoa,Italy
• Columbus set sail in 1492
• He set sail the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria
• Ships carried 90 sailors

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• A Portuguese navigator
• Set out with Spanish fleet
• Went into the pacific
• His ships were very low on food
• Also fresh water

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• Started with Columbus' explorations
• European's brought corn, potatoes, tobacco,cocoa
• European's brought diseases to the America's

CONQUISTADORS

• Soldiers led military expeditions in the America's
• Conquistador Hernan Cortes left Cuba to sail
• Cortes heard a wealthy land to the west

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

• Water route through North America
• Ships sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific

MIDDLE PASSAGE

• A voyage across Atlantic
• Enslaved Africans were forced to endure
• Slaves died of sickness,suffocation,malnutrition