THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

LEIF ERIKSSON

• He was the son of Erik the Red
• He landed in Canada in the year ad1000
• Leif Eriksson was the first Viking to land in North America.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• He was a sailer from Genoa Italy
• He tried to sail west to get to Asia and laned in an island in the Bahamas
• When he died the thought he landed in Asia

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• He was a Portuguese navigator who circumnavigated the globe
• He was killed in the Philippines

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• The exchange of livestock and plants
• The also exchanged bad diseases

CONQUSITADORS

• They were Spanish soldiers who lead military
• The had better weapons during the battle

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

• A path through America from Atlantic to the Pacific over the seas
• It was found by Jacques Cartier

MIDDLE PASSAGE

• A voyage across the Atlantic that enslaved Africans
• It was during 1520's-1860's