Age of Exploration PPT Notes

Name:______Course:______The Vikings

• First to discover ______• Clues first appeared in written stories called______. • The sagas suggested that ______Herjolfsson and Leif the ______had sailed to the new lands west and south of Greenland • ______named Newfoundland ______. • ______became the first Viking to be buried in North America. • ______Ingstad were a husband and wife team from ______. • They had studied old ______and maps and read the sagas. • They came up with a ______that the Vikings had discovered North America ______years before Columbus arrived. • They began a dig in the 1960s at the northeastern tip of Newfoundland, called______. • The Ingstads found remains of houses like houses in Norway and Greenland in ______times. • Other treasure included Viking jewelry, tools and even______, which were unknown in North America before Europeans came. • CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• Influenced by a 200 year old book written by ______• Polo had written about his travels from Venice, across Asia to Cathay. He wrote about ______• Spices were very expensive, as they came from the East Indies, known as______. • Columbus believed that if you traveled east by land, you arrived in the Indian islands off the coast of Asia. • If you traveled west, you could reach India by water-______. • This was during the time of the debate of whether the world was ______or______. • Columbus’ conclusion assumed the world was______. • Columbus moved to Lisbon, Portugal. • ______was considered the headquarters for voyages of discovery. • He could not find supports there so he moved to______. • King ______and Queen ______gave him the money he needed for ships, sailors and supplies. • Columbus made his famous voyage in______. • His 3 ships were the______, the______, and the Santa______. • He reached the land at the island of San Salvador in the______. (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) • He was convinced he arrived in India and he named the island ______and its inhabitants Indians. • Later, other explorers made the same mistake and aboriginal peoples of North and South America also became known as Indians • He made ______more voyages across the Atlantic Ocean in the next 10 years. • He never reached Cathay and he never even set foot on the mainland of______! • His voyages were important, as he opened up ______for exploration and trade. Christopher John Cabot Jacques Cartier Samuel de Columbus Champlain Homeland Project

Sponsor/s

Date Discoveries

Outcomes

Explorer/s Date Discoveries HENRY HUDSON

ETIENNE BRULE

PIERRE RADISSON AND MEDARD GROSEILLIERS LOUIS JOLIET AND FATHER JACQUES MARQUETTE LA SALLE AND FATHER LOUIS HENNEPIN DANIEL DULHUT

HENRY KELSEY

PIERRE LA VERENDYRE

ANTHONY HENDAY

SAMUEL HEARNE

ALEXANDER MACKENZIE

GEORGE VANCOUVER

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND MANY OTHER ARCTIC EXPLORERS