Explorers & English Colonies Monday 09/17/12
Dec 27, 2015
Pass in all homework Lesson 1 Vocabulary
Lesson 2 (3 columns)
Lesson 3 Question #1
Venn Diagram
Summary
Portuguese and Spanish Exploration
Exploration 1400’s Europeans began searching for new route to Indies
Indies- East Asia and Indonesia
source of spices, gold, jewels, and perfume
Wanted to find new route to cut of Arab Merchants
Portuguese Explorers First to reach “spice islands” by sailing around African Coast
Prince Henry the Navigator
Set up school to teach how to navigate african coast
Bartholomeu Dias reached the Cape of Good Hope
Vasco de Gamma followed same route and landed on West coast of India
Christopher Columbus From Genoa, Italy
Believed he could reach Indies by sailing west
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain financed voyage
Christopher Columbus 1492 Set sail in three ships
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Believed the distance from Europe and Asia was 2,500 miles
Actual distance 10,000 miles
Coloumbus On sea for two months and found no land
Oct. 12, 1492 spotted island in Caribbean (San Salvador)
Called the people Indios- later became Indians
Made four trips to South America
Never set foot on what is now the United States
Amerigo Vespucci/ Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Vespucci was first European to realize Columbus found new continent
came to conclusion after exploring coast for Portugal in 1499
Cartographer (map maker) later named the entire hemisphere America after him
Balboa was first to set eyes on Pacific ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
1519, Ferdinand Magellan set to explore Pacific Ocean
Sailed east coast of South Ameria
Found strait of Magellan- named after him which led to pacific ocean
The English and the Northwest Passage
King Henry VII hears about Columbus and sends out explorers
John Cabot- first from England-- believed he could find quicker route- West from England
1st Voyage found Newfoundland
2nd found North America as far south as Delaware
Thought he reached China
Francis Drake
Queen Elizabeth I produced new English explorer
“Sea Dogs”
plundered, or stole from Spanish shipping while they explored new territory
Drake sailed around the world steeling from Spanish but never found route to the Indies
Rules of Civility
Handed out is a copy of Rules Civility
In groups of 4 read through the rules and then rewrite them in modern english
Then as a group come up with where you think this document is from, and why they might have used it.
The Southen Colonies Roanoke Colony
Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Walter Raleigh to set up colony in North Carolina (1584)
3 years later sent 113 colonist to Roanoke Island
a ship dropped them off and the Spanish attacked England, 2 years later when the shipped returned the colony had vanished
Virginia
King James I gave the Virginia Company the right to establish a colony in North America
Joint-Stock Company expected to make a profit
Joint-Stock people who buy shares and own a part of the company
Jamestown
May 1607 sent 104 men and boys
forced to look for silver and gold instead of planting crops
Summer half die due to starvation and malaria
John Smith Colony would be saved by John Smith
Asked Powhatan people for food and was captured
Chief's Daughter Pocahontas persuaded dad to spare life
traded with Powhatan to survive