AGE OF eXPLORATION

LEIF ERIKSSON

• He was the son of Erik the red.
• Eriksson settled in a coastal are he called Vinland.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• Sailor from Genoa, Italy
• Son of Will Merchant

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• Portuguese navigator.
• The journey was 40,000 miles long.

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• Took plants and animals.
• They took tobacco.

CONQUISTADORS

• Spanish soldiers.
• Hernán cortés left Cuba.

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

• Was a path through the North America.
• Ships sailed from Atlantic to the Pacific.

MIDDLE PASSEGE

• The voyage across the Atlantic
• Enslaved Africans were forced to endure
• There were about 12 million people on the ship
• The were hand cuffed together and stacked in the lower deck.