NAME. bate class networks Age of Exploration and Trade Lesson 1 The Age of Exploration ESSENTIAL QUESTION Terms to Know How does technology change the way conquistadors Spanish solciers who conqueree people live? people in other lands cireumnavigate to go completely around something, such as the world GUIDING QUESTIONS 1. Why did Europeans begin to explore the werla? 2. Which leaders were responsible for European ‘exploration of the world? Where in the world? Magellan 7 When did it happen? I a pa |S 269NAME, DATE class networks Rie ea Lesson 1 The Age of Exploration, continued Europe Gets Ready to Explore In the 1400s and 1500s, countries in Western Europe began @ Marking exploring the world. They wanted spices, silk, and other goods the Text from Asia, 4. Underline the reason Political change in the countries between Europe and Asia Europeans decided to made it more difficult and expensive to trade goods by land. sail to Asia if European traders could not get there by land, maybe they could get there by sea. Their ships, however, were not equipped to travel the Atlantic Ocean, By the 1400s, they had the tools they needed. From the Arabs, ({@ Describing they learned about the astrolabe and the compass. The astrolabe was an ancient Greek tool used to find latitude, The compass was a tool that sailors used to figure out which direction they 2. What improvements did Europeans make to their ships? were going European shipbuilders made better ships. They used sails invented by the Arabs that were shaped like triangles. These sails let ship go in any direction, No longer dia they have to go just whore the wind blows By the 1400s, many people in Europe knew the world was El leentitying round, However, they had maps of only Europe and the Mediterranean region, Sailors began to study ancient maps and 3. Who were Ptolemy books and aliris? What Europeans Needed to Find Asia * _astrolabe and compass for directions © sails for ships i ‘+ maps from Ptolemy and al-larisi i A Greek geographer named Claudius Ptolemy had drawn - imaps of the world. He wrote dovn te fate end longitude of Reading over 8,000 places. Europeans began studying his maps. Sailors Check and explorers were able to get copies of the maps because of 4. How cid now the invention of the printing press Teneo take i Sailors also studied the works of an Arab geographer named possible for Europeans al-lcrisi Europeans learned about the Indian Ocean, They decided to make long ocean that sailing around Attica was the best way to get to Asia voyages? Even though the Europeans had new tools, exploration was still dangerous and costly. During this time, towns and trade also grew. This made Europe’s governments stronger. By the 1400s, four kingdoms were looking for a sea route to Asia. All of them had ports on the Atlantic Ocean, The race was on between England, Portugal, Spain, and France. 270NAME. bate class networks Tier came Lesson 1 The Age of Exploration, continued @ Describing 5. Place a two-tab Foldable along the dotted line to cover the text Early Voyages of Discovery. Cut the tabs in half to form four tabs. Title the anchor tab Explorers. Label the four tabs Portugal, Spain, England, and France. Identify the explorers of each country and briefly describe their travels in the new world dy Dewing Conclusions 6. Why was Portugal able to begin exploring before other countries? @ Marking the Text 7. Circle the names of explorers who came to the Americas. Early Voyages of Discovery Inthe early 4005, England and France were stil fighting each other, and Spain was batting the Muslims. Portugal was free to lead the way to explore new trade routes to Asia. Prince Henry of Portugal paid for many voyages of exploration. About 1420, his sallos traveled along Aica's west coast. They made maps of what they found In 1488 Bartolomeu Dias reached the southern tp of Ati, Nine years later, Vasco da Gama rounded the tip of Aftica, He raced across the Indian Ocean to the southwest coast of India, He had found a water route to East Asia, {An talan navigator then came up with a aifferent plan to get to Asia. His name was Christopher Columbus. He decided to sail west, not east, across the Atlantic Ocean Columbus had three ships: the Santa Mario, the Nia, and the Pinta, They let Spain in 1492 and headed west. after many weeks, they finally saw land, Columbus thought he was in Asta He did not realize he was in the Americas He mate several more trips, He brought conquistadors, or Spanish soldier-explorers, wth him to conquer the people of the new lands, Europeans eventualy realized they had found new Bartolomeu Dias | + Vesco da Gama Christopher Columbus | + Ferdinand Magellan John Cabot ‘The English heard about Columbus's trip. They also wanted to find a route to Asia. In 1497 John Cabot headed across the Atlantic Ocean. Cabot came to the coast of Canada, He did not find a path to Asia. Cabot was lost at sea on his second trip. He was never heard from again, In 1520 Ferdinand Magellan sailed south along the coast of South America. He found a way around the continent. He then went west, His sailors almost starved. After four months at sea, they reached the present-day Philippines. There, Magellan died 2nNAME, DATE class networks Rie ea Lesson 1 The Age of Exploration, continued ina battle between local groups. His crew then went west actos the Indian Ocean. They went around Africa and back to Spain. Defining They were the first known people to circumnavigate, or sail a around, the world, 8. What does it mean to circumnavigate In 1524 France sent Glovanni da Verrazano to find a northern something? route to Asia. He drew maps of the east coast of America, but he did not find a way to Asia, Ten years later, Jacques Cartier entered the St. Lawrence River. He claimed much of eastern Canada for France. After these early trips, France stopped exploring for a time. Reading By the mid-1500s, France and England were involved in religious Check conflicts and civil wars. It wasn’t until the early 1600s that these countries begain exploring again. Spain and Portugal had 9. Why was it important territories in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. So for the explorers of the France and England began to establish their colonies in North Americas to use ‘America information they learned from earlier explorers? Check for Understanding List five things Europeans needed to find a new route to Asi 2 40. Place a two-tab Foldable along the dotted line. Title the Be anchor tab Technology a & Exploration. Label £ B_ the two tabs Advances In Ships and Sailing List two explorers who reached Asia from different m and Explorers Try to directions. Reach Asia. 6. (On both sides of the tabs, write five or more 7 ‘words that you remember about technology and exploration 272