The Explorers of the Age of Exploration: Spanish and English Discussion with video clip about Spanish Armada

1. Bell Ringer 2/4/2015
Your uncle is a Portuguese ship captain who has just
come back from a long sea voyage. He shows you a map
of the new lands he has seen. He tells wonderful stories
about strange plants and animals. You are studying to
become a carpenter, but you wonder if you might like to
be an explorer like your uncle instead.
How would you decide which career to choose?
***consider PROS of becoming a carpenter & PROS of
becoming an explorer***

2. Objective and Standard
• I can identify the voyages of discovery, their
locations and their impact on the world.
• 7.73 - Identify the voyages of discovery, the
locations of the routes, and the influence of
technology in the developments of a new
European worldview including cartography,
compass, caravel, astrolabe.

3. The Explorers:
Portugal

4. Bartolomeu Dias
• Attempted to sail
around the southern
tip of Africa to reach
India – for what??
• Strong storm
threatens to destroy
expedition
• Founds Cape of
Good Hope

6. Vasco da
Gama• Sailed around Africa
and landed in the
west coast of India.
• A sea route to Asia
had been found!!!
• Provides an
important trade route
from Europe to India
and East Indies.

8. Ferdinand Magellan
• His crew made first
round-the-world
voyage.
– Proved for certain
that the world was
round.
• Magellan was killed
in the Phillippines,
did not make it
home.

11. The Explorers:
Spain

12. Christopher Columbus

13. Christopher Columbus
• Believed a shorter
route to Asia could be
found by sailing
westward instead of
around Africa.

14. Sailing to the Americas!
• He told the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand and
Isabella, his plan and promised them riches, and
new territories …if they funded his travels he
would also promise Catholic converts…
– What else did Ferdinand and Isabella do?
• In October 1492, Columbus’s crew and his 3 ships
(names??) finally saw land after 3 months of
sailing!
• Where did Columbus believe he landed?
• What did he call the native peoples he met?

15. The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria

17. Who Finally Figured It Out?!?
• In 1507, a German mapmaker decided to name the
newly discovered continents after the man that
made that fact known…Amerigo Vespucci!
• Vespucci had made a number of voyages to the
New World and through letters expressed his
thoughts that this was a new continent!
• Good thing the mapmaker decided to use his first
name…. “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of Vespuccia…” **Sounds weird!!

18. Spanish & Portuguese sailors
• Prince Henry the Navigator was responsible for
much of Portugal's success on the seas. He built
an observatory and a navigation school to teach
how to sail ocean voyages!
• Bartolomeu Dias – attempts to sail around Africa –
founded the Cape of Good Hope
• 1498- Vasco de Gama sailed around Africa and
landed in the west coast of India. A sea route to
Asia had been found!

19. The Voyage
• August 1492 Columbus and crew landed in the
Bahamas. He thought it was Asia. He did not
realize North America lay right in front of him!
• A Portuguese sailor, Ferdinand Magellan led a
trip to to southern South America. He was
killed before he finished his journey – but his
crew became the first to circumnavigate the
globe!!

20. Recap
• 1. What prompted Europeans to explore in the
1400s?
• 2. In your opinion, what was the most
important technological advance for European
explorers?
• 3. What did Henry the Navigator contribute to
world exploration?
• 4. Who was the first European to sail around
Africa and land in India?

21. New world
• Spanish explorers called the Americas the New
World

22. English and French
• England and France also wanted to find a new
route to Asia. So they sent explorers to look for a
waterway through North America, the Northwest
Passage. They did not find a successful route, but
they claimed the land in North America. They
wanted to find riches in the New World.
• Sir Francis Drake began stealing treasures from
Spanish transport ships, Spain was furious!

23. Spanish Armada
• Spain was mad!
• They sent 130 ships to attack England. This fleet
was part of Spain’s navy, known as the Spanish
Armada.
• English had faster ships and better guns so they
defeated the Spanish!

24. Match the explorer with his
discovery/voyage:
1. Vasco da Gama a. English privateer; stole
from Spain
1. Christopher Columbus b. sponsored many voyages of
discovery
1. Francis Drake c. first to find a water route to
Asia by rounding Africa
1. Ferdinand Magellan d. first to circumnavigate the
globe
1. Henry the Navigator e. tried to get to Asia by
traveling west across the Atlantic

25. Video Clip from the movie
“Elizabeth: The Golden Age”

26. Explorer story!
• Take all the knowledge you learned today about
the explorers. You will write a story about one
explorer, what they discovered, and why they
were significant. It may be 1st person (if you want
to be an explorer) or 3rd person The story needs
to include the following explorers: Vasco de
Gama, Henry the Navigator, Magellan,
Columbus. I will model this for you – this should
be at least 10 sentences!

27. Helping out the sailors!
• Advances in technology allowed people to
explore! Sailors used the astrolabe and the
compass to find routes to far away places.

28. More Advances
• Accurate maps also
allowed people to
travel greater
distances!
• Shipbuilding –
Portuguese started
making caravels- they
used triangle sails so
this allowed them to
sail against the wind.

29. Religion
• People also wanted to convert more people to
Christianity and counteract the spread of
Islam