christopher columbus’s voyages led to new exchanges
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The Big Idea• Christopher Columbus’s voyages led to new exchanges
between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Main Ideas
• Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and reached a continent that was previously unknown to him.
• After Columbus’s voyages, other explorers sailed to the Americas.
Columbus Sails Across the Atlantic
• Christopher Columbus– sailor from Genoa, Italy
– stories of wealth in Asia.
• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain – paid for an expedition
across the Atlantic.
Columbus Sails Across the Atlantic
• On August 3, 1492– Columbus sets sail
across the Atlantic with three ships.
• On October 12, 1492– reaches the Americas.
Columbus Sails Across the Atlantic• Columbus and his crew
landed in the Bahamas– he named San Salvador
“Holy Savior.”
• Called native people Indians– Why?
• Interested in…?– GOLD– NOT the culture of the
Taino, the native people.
Columbus Sails Across the Atlantic
• Made three more voyages to the Americas.
• Impact of Columbus’s voyages on the world was not realized until years after his death
Impact of Columbus’s Voyages
SPAIN v. PORTUGAL
• Line of Demarcation:– Divided Atlantic Ocean
• Spain could claim all land west of that line
• Treaty of Tordesillas:– Moved line 800 miles
further west
Other Explorers Sail to the Americas
• Amerigo Vespucci
– Led Spanish fleet to present-day South American Coast
• Name Sound Familiar?
– German mapmaker labeled continents across the ocean America to honor him
Other Explorers Sail to the Americas
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
– Present-day Panama
1513 – Pacific Ocean
Other Explorers Sail to the Americas
• Ferdinand Magellan
– Expedition in 1519
• circumnavigated, or sailed around, the world.
Name given the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
The Columbian Exchange