European Exploration
Early Explorers
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