AGE+OF+EXPLORATION

=**Age of Exploration **=

During the 1400s and 1500s, many people believed that the world was flat. There were people who believed the world was round but since no one had sailed around the world there was no proof of eather case. Many maps of the 1400s and 1500s are wonderfully imaginative, they show Europe in the center sourrounded by a vast of seas with creatures such ascyclops and mermen, lurking in wait for unsuspecting sailors. Sailors navigated studying the location of the stars during storms. When clouds covered the sky sailors didnt have anything that could guide them. Prince Henry the navigator a Portugues noblr man was one of the reasons that explorers could eventually sourrounded in circumnavigating or traveling around the world. Prince Henry however believed that the new ship desings and better instruments exploration colud be successful. One of this desings was carvels.

EUROPEANS EXPLORED THE NEW WORLD FOR VARIOUS REASONS:
 * CURIOSITY
 * WEALTH
 * FAME
 * NATIONAL PRIDE
 * RELIGION
 * FOREING GOODS
 * FASTER, CHEAPER AND TRADE ROUTES

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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TAKES A TRIP ​ Christopher Columbus was born in Genova Italy 1451. In 1453 however the turks conquered Constantinople. Because Constantinople was a mayor trade center between Europe and Asia, trade to the western Europe was cut off. He became very interested in sailing and mapmarking, and at age of 14 he went to sea. Columbus decided that by sailing west he could find a shorter trade route to the Far East. Columbus had calculatedbthat the trip from Europe to the Indies (China, Japan, India, and the East Indies) was about 2400 miles long. King Ferdinard and Queen Isabella of Spain finally agreed to support the journey. Preparations were made and three THE SANTA MARIA, THE PINTA AND THE NINA set sail from Palos, Spain, on August 3, 1492. In October the crew was about to force columbus to return to Spain when they began to see bits of wood and other signs of land. On October 12, they landed on San Salvador, an island in the Bahamas. Columbus believed the island was part of the Indies, so he named the people living there INDIANS.

 SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

 Champlain is called the Father of Canada because during his explorations he claimed much of that country for France. Champlain explored the St, Lawrence River and set up a series of tradind posts all along it. In 1608, he founded the city of Quebec. Champlain also explored parts of Nova Scotia, and later, the Great Lakes area.During his explorations, Champlain met the Algonquin and Huron Indians. The Canadian Indians were in constant battle with southern tribe called the Iroquois.

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