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European Explorations

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The Vikings O Arrived five centuries before Columbus O Originated from Scandinavia O Led by Leif Erikson from the colony on Greenland O Called the region Vinland

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Christopher Columbus O Grew up in Italy O He moved to Portugal to begin sailing and learned about the world beyond Europe O He believed if he sailed west far enough that he would reach China

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O King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella from Spain liked his idea and financed his trip O He took around 90 men with him on three ships called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria

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The Voyage O Columbus predicted it would take 21 days with the wind at their back O They spotted land on October 12 th

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O He believed that he was in the East Indies O Called the people Indians O Returned to Spain and told them that there was lots of the gold in the West Indies

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Other Voyages O Columbus went back in 1493 with more ships and soldiers to conquer more land O Also intended to convert the people to Christianity O On the second voyage he discovered Puerto Rico

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O He would return two more times claiming parts of the South America O He died in 1506 still believing he had reached Asia

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Columbian Exchange O Transfer of people, products, and ideas between the hemispheres O Europeans introduced cows, hogs, and other domestic animals O As well as wheat and oats O Native Americans introduced llamas, turkeys, squirrels, and muskrats O Farming

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O Many negatives O Diseases O Examples for smallpox, chickenpox, measles O Slavery and mistreatment of Native Americans

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Amerigo Vespucci O He first came to the new world in 1499 O Realized this was not Asia as Columbus thought O He wrote a letter describing the new world O German mapmaker labeled the region the land of Amerigo or shortened to Amerigo

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa O From Spain O He explored what is today Panama O First European to see the Pacific Ocean

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Ferdinand Magellan O He set out to find an Atlantic-Pacific passage in 1519 O Strait-narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water O He finds a narrow passage in present day Argentina O Killed in battle in the Philippines

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Dangers at Sea! O Sea Monsters O Storms O Getting Lost O Starvation O Piracy