1. The Age of Exploration and
Colonization
By: Mr. Gayares
Pirate bucaneer

2. Current events
• Rescue workers found five bodies on
Tuesday in the submerged part of the
Italian cruise liner that capsized off Italy’s
west coast, bringing the death toll to 11.
• The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran
aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio
Island on Friday.
• Italian cave-rescue divers are painstakingly
checking thousands of debris-filled cabins
on the Italian liner Monday for more than
20 people still unaccounted for out of the
4,200 who were on board.

3. The Explorers
• Portugal: leader of the exploration
• Prince Henry “The Navigator” is the secret behinds Portugal’s
knowledge of seas
• Places:
• West Africa,
• Cape of Storms (Cape of Good Hope) Bartholmeu Dias
• Calicut, India by da Gama
• Ternate Moluccas
• Brazil by Pedro Cabral

4. Spain: Defender of the Catholic Faith
• Leader: King Ferdinanad and Quenn Isabella
• Explorers: Christopher Columbus-discovered
the “New World”
• Magellan: Philippines
• Hernando Cortes: Mexico (aztecs)
• Pizarro: Peru (Inca)
• Hernando de Sotto: Florida

5. Dutch
• Dutch East India Company (1602)
• Dutch West India Company (1621)
• Monopolized the trade with Japan and Asia
• Did not send any missionaries to their colonies
• Indonesia

6. English
• John Cabot: Newfoundland (America)
• Henry Hudson
• Founded Jamestown (1607)
• Religious freedom: Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers,
Roman Catholics

7. France
• Jacques Cartier: New France (Canada)
• Samuel de Champlain: Quebec
• Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette : wisconsin
and Mississipppi
• Robert de La Salle: Louisiana