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European Exploration of North America and North Carolina Chapter 3 11/4/2011 EQ: Why did Europeans first explore North America and North Carolina, and what were the consequences?…
Chapter 15 The First Global Age: Europe and Asia 1415 - 1796 Section 1 â The Search for Spices I. Europeans Explore the Seas I. Europeans Explore the Seas The Crusades introduced…
Transatlantic Voyages and Navigation The Age of Exploration European sailors and ships -> left the Old World (Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, Dutch) -> set out…
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Slide 1 The Globe Before European explorers and conquerors sailed across the oceans in the 1400s and 1500s, cartographers in Europe made globes. In 1492, Martin Behaim, a…