THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

LEIF ERIKSSON

• Leif Eriksson was the son of Erik the Red, and shared his father's love for adventure.
• Eriksson had settled in a coastal area he had called Vinland, but the Vikings had left a few years after.
• He was sailing from west Norway to Greenland when strong winds had blew his ship off course and carried his ship to the Notrth America coast.
• Eriksson and his crew landed on the Labrador Peninsula in pre-sent day Canda.

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• He had sailed from the southern tip of South America into the Pacific Ocean
• Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippine Islands.
• One of his ships from the expedition was the first to circumnavigate.

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• It had started with the explorations of Christopher Columbus .
• This had transported different thing from both the old world to the new world
• The old world brought carrots,rice , and diseases the Native Americans were not immune to.
• The new world brought avocados,corn,strawberries, and peppers to the old world.

CONQUISTAORS

• Conquistaor were Spanish soldiers who led military expositions in America.
• A conquistador was Francisco Pizarro who led his troops to capture the great Inca Empire.
• The conquistadors had superior weapons and formed alliances with enemies of the Aztec.
• The conquistadors had conquered the Inca and Aztec Empires.

THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE

• Europeans wanted to find a passage in the new world to allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
• Early searchers for the Northwest Passage explored the the coast from Canada to North Carolina.
• The Northwest passage was never found, but the voyages led to more interest in North America.

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Enslaved people were chained and packed as cargo in lower decks of slave ships.
• In the crowded ships, many of the slaves died of illness, suffocation, or malnutrition.
• Between the 1520's and the 1860's about 12 million Africans were ship to America as slaves.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• He was a sailor from Genoa, Itlay.
• He thought he could sail from Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean.
• When Columbus had died he still thought he had reached Asia.