The Age of Exploration and Colonization saw several European powers actively exploring and colonizing new parts of the world. Portugal was a leader in exploration, sending expeditions down the coast of West Africa. Spain sought to spread Catholicism and discovered new lands like Mexico and Peru. The Dutch established trading companies and colonies in Asia and Indonesia. England founded colonies in North America like Jamestown, offering religious freedom. France explored and established colonies in Canada and the Mississippi River valley.

1. The Age of Exploration and
Colonization
By: Mr. Gayares
Pirate bucaneer

2. Current events
• Rescue workers found five bodies on
Tuesday in the submerged part of the
Italian cruise liner that capsized off Italy’s
west coast, bringing the death toll to 11.
• The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran
aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio
Island on Friday.
• Italian cave-rescue divers are painstakingly
checking thousands of debris-filled cabins
on the Italian liner Monday for more than
20 people still unaccounted for out of the
4,200 who were on board.

3. The Explorers
• Portugal: leader of the exploration
• Prince Henry “The Navigator” is the secret behinds Portugal’s
knowledge of seas
• Places:
• West Africa,
• Cape of Storms (Cape of Good Hope) Bartholmeu Dias
• Calicut, India by da Gama
• Ternate Moluccas
• Brazil by Pedro Cabral

4. Spain: Defender of the Catholic Faith
• Leader: King Ferdinanad and Quenn Isabella
• Explorers: Christopher Columbus-discovered
the “New World”
• Magellan: Philippines
• Hernando Cortes: Mexico (aztecs)
• Pizarro: Peru (Inca)
• Hernando de Sotto: Florida

5. Dutch
• Dutch East India Company (1602)
• Dutch West India Company (1621)
• Monopolized the trade with Japan and Asia
• Did not send any missionaries to their colonies
• Indonesia

6. English
• John Cabot: Newfoundland (America)
• Henry Hudson
• Founded Jamestown (1607)
• Religious freedom: Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers,
Roman Catholics

7. France
• Jacques Cartier: New France (Canada)
• Samuel de Champlain: Quebec
• Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette : wisconsin
and Mississipppi
• Robert de La Salle: Louisiana