Exploring the Age of Exploration

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Christopher Columbus

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explorer who reached the Americas in 1492

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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agreement dividing New World between Spain and Portugal

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Caravel

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fast ship developed by the Portuguese

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Vasco da Gama

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European to reach India by sea (1498)

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Ferdinand Magellan

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first expedition to circumnavigate the globe

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Motivations for Exploration

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God, Glory

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Impact of Columbian Exchange

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of plants, animals, diseases between Old and New Worlds

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Role of Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese voyages along Africa’s coast

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Astrolabe usage

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tool to determine latitude at sea

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Effects on Indigenous Populations

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due to disease, conquest, and colonization