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