history homework

Early Exploration

Student Outline

I. Reasons for European Exploration

· Monopoly on trade with the East

· Desire to dominate new territory

· Disease in their own countries

· New scientific and technological advancements

II. Major World Explorers

· Prince Henry the Navigator

· Bartolomeu Dias

· Vasco de Gama

III. Discovery of the New World

A. Christopher Columbus

B. Spain and Portugal Compete: (Treaty of Tordesillas)

· Brazil: Pedro Álvares Cabral

C. The Changing World

· Understanding World Geography

· Amerigo Vespucci

· Martin Waldseemuller

· The Columbian Exchange