AGE OF EXPLORATION

LEIF ERIKSSON

• He was the sun of Eric the Red
• He was a Viking
• He sailed accidentally to The coast of North America

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• He landed on an island in the Caribbean sea
• He made several trips there and back even when dead
• He thought he found a "new land"

FERDINAND MEGELLAN

• Considered the first to circumnavigate the globe
• He died in the Philippines along the way
• His crew finished the journey anyway

COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE

• The Colombian exchange brought disease that natives couldn't fight
• Foods and other resources were shipped a cross the Atlantic
• Slave trade started

CONQUISTADORS

• Conquered the Aztec and Inca
• Killed natives and moctezuma was murdered

NORTH WEST PASSAGE

• Jacques Cartier was looking a water route to Asia
• Found the St. Lawrence

MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Transported slaves to the America's
• Many Africans died being transported