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Portuguese Explorers

Portuguese Explorers. Nike Task. Please take your HW out from last night. Open your interactive notebook to CNN Student News. Write today’s task:

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Portuguese Explorers

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  1. Portuguese Explorers

  2. Nike Task • Please take your HW out from last night. • Open your interactive notebook to CNN Student News. • Write today’s task: • Describe the town hall debate format. According to CNN's Candy Crowley, what challenges do the nominees face during a town hall debate? What kinds of questions might be asked by an audience?

  3. Prince Henry “The Navigator” • Sponsor- Portugal • Motivation For Exploration- Gold, God, Glory • Claims to Fame: Set up a school of navigation and mapmaking

  4. Bartolomeu Dias • Sponsor- Portugal • Motivation For Exploration- Gold, God, Glory • Claims to Fame: 1st European to to go around the Southern tip of Africa

  5. Vasco da Gama • Sponsor- Portugal • Motivation For Exploration- Spices • Claims to Fame:charted a sea route to India

  6. Pedro Cabral • Sponsor- Portugal • Motivation For Exploration- established trading posts and treaties • Claims to Fame:claimed present day Brazil for Portugal

  7. Spanish Explorers and Conquistadors (adventurers)

  8. Why did the Spanish explore? • In the late 1400’s Spain was determined to make their country a powerful force in Europe. • One way to do this was to sponsor explorations and claim new lands for Spain.

  9. Christopher Columbus • Italian explorer who sailed for Spain • Believed sailing west would be the easiest route to the Indies. (or Asia) • Set sail for the “New World” on three ships called the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

  10. Ferdinand Magellan • Believed he could sail west to the Indies if he found a strait, or channel, through South America.

  11. Ponce de Leon Explored Florida for Spain Was in search of the “Fountain of Youth”

  12. Hernan Cortes • Explored Mexico and conquered the Aztecs • Aztec king Montezuma welcomed Cortes but was taken hostage • Used weapons and disease to destroy the Aztecs

  13. Francisco Pizarro • Conquered the Inca Empire in South America • Pizarro launched a surprise attack and kidnapped the emperor. • Pizarro killed the emperor after his people paid a large ransom of gold and silver

  14. What was the impact of Spanish exploration? • Spain earned great wealth from settlements in the New World. • The Spanish devastated native people. Priests forced them into Christianity. • Natives were forced into slavery, many died of starvation, overwork, or European disease. • Spanish introduced many new things to the Americas

  15. Treaty of Tordesilles

  16. Treaty of Tordesilles • Agreement between Spain and Portugal- divided the AMERICAS into two parts (1 part for Spain and 1 part for Portugal) • Because not much exploring was done… Most of the Americas was given to (or claimed by) Spain.

  17. What was the Columbian Exchange?

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