Age of Exploration (19-20)

What role did the Renaissance play in launching an Age of Exploration?

• The Renaissance taught people how to swim 
• The Renaissance encouraged a new spirit of adventure and curiosity
• The Renaissance didn't affect the Age of Exploration
• None of the following

What were the Europeans motives behind the Age of Exploration?

• search for food and buy technology

• New land to raise their children

• Fame, new land to increase their wealth and to spread the Christian religion.

• none of the above

Land controlled by other nations

• Colony
• Feudal
• Minority
• New land

Leif Ericson

• Explored China
• Discovered the Pacific Ocean
• First European to discover North America
• Conquered the Aztec

Vasco da Gama

• Led first crew to circumnavigate the globe.

• Rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, but failed to find a sea route to Asia.

• Explored South America and conquered the Incas

• First to discover a sea route to Asia by rounding the southern tip of Africa and sailing to India.

Hernan Cortes

• Reached the Pacific Ocean by crossing Panama
• Explored South America and conquered the Incas.
• Conquered the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain.
• Realized the Americas were a "New World."

Christopher Columbus

• Explored the West Indies, the Caribbean, and northern South America, BUT believed he was in Asia.
• Explored South America and conquered the Incas.
• Conquered the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain.
• Realized the Americas were a "New World."Vasco da GamaBartholomew DiasHernan CortesChristopher ColumbusFrancisco PizzaroVasco Nunez de BalboaFerdinand MagellanAmerigo Vespucci

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Explored the West Indies, the Caribbean, and northern South America, BUT believed he was in Asia.

• Explored South America and conquered the Incas.

• Conquered the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain.

• Reached the Pacific Ocean by crossing through what is now the Panama Canal.

Ferdinand Magellan

• Led the first expedition to sail around the world

• Rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, but failed to find a sea route to Asia.

• Explored South America and conquered the Incas

• First to discover a sea to Asia by rounding the southern tip of Africa and sailing to India.

When does the Age of Exploration begin?

• 400 AD

• 1300 AD

• 1599 AD

• 1400 AD