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Explorers
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Lesson 1
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Marco Polo
• Wrote The Travels of Marco Polo • Many Europeans wanted to go to
Cathay (China). • Interested in the riches Marco Polo
talked about No Europeans traveled to Asia by sea at this time.
• No Europeans traveled to Asia by sea at this time.
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New Technology
• Prince Henry of Portugal opened a school of Navigation.
• Improved the compass and the astrolabe.
• Improved maps
• Learned how to sail a new ship called the caravel.
– Long, narrow ship
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More of the World to Discover
• Few Europeans knew there were other continents besides Europe.
• Leif Erickson led a group called the Vikings to Norway.
• Europeans traded with Africa.
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Christopher Columbus
• Believed he could reach Asia by sailing west across the ocean.
• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella supported Columbus’s trip if he converted the people he encountered to the Catholic religion.
• On October 12, 1492 Columbus, with his 3 ships landed on San Salvador. – Thought he was in Asia
– Met Taino tribe
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Route Columbus took
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Lesson 2
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John Cabot
• King Henry VII paid John Cabot to claim land.
• Italian
• Cabot claimed land for England.
– Actually reached present day Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Amerigo Vespucci
• Didn’t believe Columbus and Cabot found Asia.
• Martin Waldseemüller drew a map of the new land and named it America after Vespucci.
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa
• One of the first Europeans to settle in America.
• Farmed on Hispaniola.
• Fled Hispaniola and started settlement in Panama.
• Traveled from South to North America by the isthmus.
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Ferdinand Magellan
• Portuguese explorer