Explorers & English

Colonies Monday 09/17/12

Pass in all homework Lesson 1 Vocabulary

Lesson 2 (3 columns)

Lesson 3 Question #1

Venn Diagram

Summary

Map Quiz # 2

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European Explorers

Cornell Notes

Portuguese and Spanish Exploration

Exploration 1400’s Europeans began searching for new route to Indies

Indies- East Asia and Indonesia

source of spices, gold, jewels, and perfume

Wanted to find new route to cut of Arab Merchants

Portuguese Explorers First to reach “spice islands” by sailing around African Coast

Prince Henry the Navigator

Set up school to teach how to navigate african coast

Bartholomeu Dias reached the Cape of Good Hope

Vasco de Gamma followed same route and landed on West coast of India

Christopher Columbus From Genoa, Italy

Believed he could reach Indies by sailing west

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain financed voyage

Christopher Columbus 1492 Set sail in three ships

Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

Believed the distance from Europe and Asia was 2,500 miles

Actual distance 10,000 miles

Coloumbus On sea for two months and found no land

Oct. 12, 1492 spotted island in Caribbean (San Salvador)

Called the people Indios- later became Indians

Made four trips to South America

Never set foot on what is now the United States

Amerigo Vespucci/ Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Vespucci was first European to realize Columbus found new continent

came to conclusion after exploring coast for Portugal in 1499

Cartographer (map maker) later named the entire hemisphere America after him

Balboa was first to set eyes on Pacific ocean

Ferdinand Magellan

1519, Ferdinand Magellan set to explore Pacific Ocean

Sailed east coast of South Ameria

Found strait of Magellan- named after him which led to pacific ocean

The English and the Northwest Passage

King Henry VII hears about Columbus and sends out explorers

John Cabot- first from England-- believed he could find quicker route- West from England

1st Voyage found Newfoundland

2nd found North America as far south as Delaware

Thought he reached China

Francis Drake

Queen Elizabeth I produced new English explorer

“Sea Dogs”

plundered, or stole from Spanish shipping while they explored new territory

Drake sailed around the world steeling from Spanish but never found route to the Indies

Rules of Civility

Handed out is a copy of Rules Civility

In groups of 4 read through the rules and then rewrite them in modern english

Then as a group come up with where you think this document is from, and why they might have used it.

The Southen Colonies Roanoke Colony

Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Walter Raleigh to set up colony in North Carolina (1584)

3 years later sent 113 colonist to Roanoke Island

a ship dropped them off and the Spanish attacked England, 2 years later when the shipped returned the colony had vanished

Virginia

King James I gave the Virginia Company the right to establish a colony in North America

Joint-Stock Company expected to make a profit

Joint-Stock people who buy shares and own a part of the company

Jamestown

May 1607 sent 104 men and boys

forced to look for silver and gold instead of planting crops

Summer half die due to starvation and malaria

John Smith Colony would be saved by John Smith

Asked Powhatan people for food and was captured

Chief's Daughter Pocahontas persuaded dad to spare life

traded with Powhatan to survive

Jamestown Cont.

Colonist John Rolfe learned how to plant Tobacco which would become profitable and number one export

John Rolfe would later marry Pocahontas