AGE OF EXPLORATION

LEIF ERIKSSON

• He was the son of Erik The Red
• He was a Viking
• He was sailing to Greenland
• His ship blew to North America

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• He landed in the Bahamas not the main land
• He thought he was in Asia
• Him and his crew were stranded on Jamaica for a year

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• He got killed in the Philippines
• His crew circumnavigated after he died

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• They traded goods for slaves
• Spread diseases
• Traded different foods

CONQUISTADORS

• The conquistadors were spanish people sent to take over land
• The Spaniards believed that the Aztec were rich with gold

THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

• Jacques Cartier explored the St.Lawrence
• Early searches explored the coast from Canada to North Carolina
• Passage was not found

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Slaves mere treated like cargo
• Slaves were traded from Africa to North America
• The Europeans took them because the natives were becoming extinct

THE END