Unit 3 Explorer

known for rounding the cape of Africa, but forced to turn back and go to India

Bartolomeo Diaz

Known for sailing around the southern cape of Africa into the Indian Ocean that discovered the Cape of good Hope and made it to the Indian Ocean

Vasco de Gama

Known for writing a series of letters describing the geography of the New World

Amerigo Vespucci

Known for starting the first school of oceanic navigation and sponsored them but never joined expeditions

Prince Henry the Naviagtor

Known for his discovery when reaching the Bahamas, but he thought he was in India “West Indies”, but was in the Carribean

Christopher Columbus

When landing in present day Mexico he made alliances with city states that had oppressive rule of the Aztecs

Hernando Cortez

Known for his ship being the first to circumnavigate the earth even though he died when this ship was still sailing

Ferdinand Magellan

known for establishing a capital of lima for new colony of the Spanish empire and conquered the Incas

Francesco Pizaro

Who discovered the Cape of Good Hope?

Vasco de Gamma

Who conquered the Aztec Empire?

Hernando Cortez

Who conquered the Incas?

Francesco Pizzaro

early administrative system

encomienda

Divided up the newly discovered world into separate Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence

Treaty of Tordesillas

Dominant economic philosophy during the Age of Exploration

Mercantilism

Detailed charts and early maps

Portolani

science of plotting the course of a ship

Navigation

One of the most important maps available to europeans in the 15th century that showed the world as spherical with 3c major landmasses

Ptolemy’s Mapd