European Exploration

Early Explorers

• Leif Erikson• Longship

Early Transcontinental Explorers

• Marco Polo– Il Milione

Early Transcontinental Explorers

• Prince Henry “the Navigator”– Funded Portuguese Exploration

Explorers

• Renaissance• Explorations• Conquistadors– Portugal• Bartolomeu Diaz• Ferdinand Magellan • Vasco de Gama

Explorers

“The World is Flat” myth

Explorers

• Spain– Christopher Columbus• 1492• San Salvador

– Amerigo Vespucci– Vasco Nunez de Balboa– Hernando De Soto– Juan Ponce de Leon– Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Treaty of Tordesillas

Impact of Contact

• Columbus’ Impression• Colonization by force• Effects of disease• Importation of Africans• Treaty of Tordesillas

Columbian Exchange

European Settlements in the New World

Spanish – St. Augustine, Florida 1565SW, Florida, TexasFrench – Canada, Mississippi RiverDutch – New YorkEnglish – East Coast

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