AGE OF EXPLORATION

LEIF ERIKSSON

• Was born in Ice Land in the late 970's
• Leif Eriksson was a sailor
• He was the son of Erik the Red

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• He was born in 1451 to a middle class family
• He died may,20 1506 in vallidoiled Spain
• Christopher Columbus, the son of a wool merchant

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• He proved our world is round
• Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal in 1480
• He started to sail at the age of 25

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• The columbian exchange was the eruapeians came across and they took stuff they found
• They took it from North America
• They got greedy and started to try and take there land

CONQUISTADOR

• They were legenedery figures
• They also tried to borrow as little as possible
• They were very brave

NORTH WEST PASSAGE

• At night it looked beautiful
• The Northwest Passage is the circuitous sea passage,
• The Northwest Passage is a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Enslavement was a horrable experience for the slaves
• They were chained around the neck
• The journey to the coast could be as long as 1000 miles