1. Portuguese expeditions
1-From early 15th century
Portugal had been looking
for a new sea route to
India around the coast of
Africa .
2-Henry the navigator
organised various
expeditions
3- Bartolomé Dias rounded
Cape of Good Hope in 1488
, opening the sea route to
the Indian Ocean .
4-Vasco de Gama reached
India in 1498
5-The Portuguese established
trading post along the new
routes

2. Castilian Expeditions
1- The Crown of Castile was Portugal´s
biggest rival in the search for new
routes to India.
2-The Castilians decided to sail to the
west across the Atlantic.
3-This plan was very risky . Crossing
the Atlantic was terrifying. It involved
sailing a long from the coast into
unknown waters.
4-Columbus was convinced that he
could reach the Eastern coast of Asia by
crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
5-He presented the project to the
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Catholic Monarchs and they decided and the New Continent
to finance the expedition is called America
6-Columbus ´calculations were wrong. because I discovered the
He thought the Earth was much place where Colon
arrived was a new
smaller than it actually was. continent
7-Finally . He arrived the New land on
12 Octubre 1492 with three ships, La
Pinta , La Niña y la Sta María.
8-He thought he had arrived Cipango
9-After this expedition , Columbus
made three more expeditions to
establish Castilian dominion

3. The First voyage around
the World
1-Magallanes and 250 sailors left
Seville in 1519.
2-The second –in-comand was Juan
Sebastian Elcano .
3-Their goal is a big voyage around
the world .
4-They found a strait connecting
both oceans. It was later named
Strait of Magallanes .
5-They sailed on to the Philippines.
There Magallanes was killed in a
fight with the natives
6-The expedition headed for the
Molucas and loaded up with
valuable spices
7-After three years , only eighteen
men and one ship , the Victoria,
returned.