AGE OF EXPLORATION!

LEIF ERKISSON

• Eriksson was a Viking .
• He landed in Canada and called it Vineland
• He was the son of Erik the Red
• Apparently landed in America 500 years before Coloumbus

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• Columbus was Eurpoean
• He sailed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492
• He was trying to land in Asia, but landed in Haiti
• He enslaved the Native Americans
• He sailed on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

FERDINAND MEGELLAN

• Sailed Around the southern tip of South America
• Killed in the phililppine island
• First one to navigate all the way around the globe

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• Trading routes devolved
• Transport between continents
• Grew new foods and plants
• Brought new animals too

CONQUISTADOR

• The conquered many lands
• They were Spanish soilders
• 1519

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

• Non-existent path through America
• From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
• They would use ships and boats

MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic
• Came to North America and the West Indies