1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

Write these questions on each of your 4 cards. Also put a map in the corner of each card.

We’ll add the name of each person when we get to that card.

Prince Henry the Navigator

Christopher Columbus

Ferdinand Magellan

Vasco da Gama

Explorers

Prince Henry the Navigator

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

1. Portugal

2. -Brought experts together to study navigation & paid for explorationQ: From what country do you think the first

explorations come?3. Prince Henry Paid 4

Portuguese to X-Plore

Vasco da Gama

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

1. Portugal

2. -sailed around tip of Africa to India (1st H2O route to Asia)Q: Why were Europeans trying to get to Asia?

3. Da Gama & Da Portuguese Da Sailed to Da India

Christopher Columbus

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

1. Spain2. -sailed west to Asia but

landed in Bahamas-1st E’pean to find “New World”

-never knew he wasn’t in IndiaQ: Would you consider him a success or failure?

3. Spain wanted to be in India, but Chris landed in the Americas

Ferdinand Magellan

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

1. Spain

2. -his crew = 1st to circumnavigate the

globeQ: What does circumnavigate mean?-circumnavigate = go around the world

3. Magellan left Spain in a boat to circumnavigate the globe

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

Write these questions on each of your 4 cards. Also put a map in the corner of each card.

We’ll add the name of each person when we get to that card.

Hernando Cortez

Francisco Pizarro

Francis Drake

Jacques Cartier

Explorers

Hernando Cortez

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

1. Spain2.-conquered the Aztecs & took over Mexico

Q: What did the Aztecs have that the Spanish would want?

3. In Mexico, the Aztecs were bold

But Cortez & Spain took their gold

Francisco Pizarro

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

1. Spain2. conquered Incas & took over Peru & ChileQ: In what mountains were the Incas located? Q: What did they have that Pizarro could use to help conquer them?3. Spain liked Pizarro with extra cheese

and they conquered the Incas in the Andes

Francis Drake

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

1. England

2. -1st Englishman to circumnavigate the

globe3. Drake! Drake! English

circumnavigate!

Jacques Cartier

1. Where was he from?

2. What did he do?

3. Memory hook

1. From France

2. Claimed E’ern Canada (Quebec) for France

3. Cartier - he liked to dance - he claimed Canada for

France