AGE OF EXPLORATION

LEIF ERIKSSON.

• Set off to Greenland but got blew off course.
• They landed in North America and settled there.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• He was a sailor from Genoa, Italy.
• He believed he could reach Asia by going west.
• He asked Queen Isabella to pay for his expedition.

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• His crew was the first to circumnavigate the whole globe.
• He was killed on this expedition in the Philippine.

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• It started because of Christopher Columbus exploration.
• It brought stuff to North America and Europe.

CONQUISTADORS

• The Spanish sent the conquistadors to America on a military expedition
• Hernàn Cotèrs left Cuba to sail to present day Mexico 1519.

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

• Is a water passage to North America.
• That allowed ships to sail from the Atlantic to pacific.

MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Was how Africans got brought to North America to be slaves.
• They were packed like cargo in the lower deck in the ship.