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Prince Henry the Navigator/Established trading posts on the W. African Coast and colonized nearby Atlantic Islands with sugar plantations
Pedro Alvarez Cabral/claimed Brazil
Vasco de Gama/sailed around the S. tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope)
Giovanni Da Verrazzano/explored Northern E. Coast Cape Fear (NC) to the New York Bay, to Nova Scotia
How?~New tech.= more accurate sailing (caravel, compass, squadrant)
Why?~ Northwest Passage |
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Who?~ Christopher Colombus/Hispaniola, La Isabelle
Amerigo Vespucci/S. American coast
Vasco Nunez de Balboa/Reached the Pacific Coast
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado/ discovered SW US including Grand Canyon
Hernando de Soto/ led exploration through SE US
Juan Ponce de Leon/ explored Florida for Fountain of Youth
Ferdinand Magellan/ circumvented the globe
Why?~ Build a profitable empire, Northwest Passage |
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When?~ Fairly late due to prolonged religious strife causing turmoil, struggle to conquer Ireland
Why?~ Opposition to (Spanish) Catholicism, Spain tried to invade England, Desire to match Spanish and French presence in the NewWorld, Potential for trade empire, Solution to social crisis, Chance for laboring classes to get economic independence, "divine mission"
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Who?/Where?~ Jaques Cartier/ Louis Joliet, de La Salle, Jaques Marquette
Where?~discovered St. Lawrence Riv/Discovered the Mississippi and sailed it down to the Gulf of Mexico
Why?~Expand empire, gain spices, riches, and esp. Animal Furs |
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