Modern World: Age exploration

Astrolabe

Makes map making more accurate

joint-stock company

Expeditions were expensive, few individuals could afford to sponsor one

Treaty of Tordesillas

All future discoveries in new world were divided between Spain and Portugal

Mercantilism

Economic system

Christopher Columbus

1492, West Indies discovered the new world

Vancouver da Gama

1479, 1st European to each India sailing around Africa

Jacques Cartier

1534, St Lawrence river and northwest passage

Prince Henry the Navigator

West coast of Africa 1450's

Bartholomew Dias

Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope in Southern Afica.

Ferdinand Magellan

First to circumnavigate the globe

Henry Hudson

Hudson Bay and northwest passage- a shortcut through or around North America

Hernado Cortes

Led a group of 508 soldiers

Nunez de Balboa

First European to see the Pacific Ocean

Amerigo Vespucci

Takes credit for recognizing it as something new, also explores the coast of Brazil

Francisco Pizarro

Led an expedition of 180 men from the isthmus of Panama to Peru in 1530

Montezuma II

Aztec emperor

Quetzalcoatl

God who wanted repentance & was returning soon

Atahualpa

Incan ruler

Cape of Good Hope

Southern tip of Africa

Strait of Magellan

Southern tip of South America

Incan Empire

Peru

Aztec Empire

Central Mexico

Mayan civilization

Yucatan Peninsula

West Indies

Caribbean Islands