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What are the REASONS for exploring?

• to find a shorter route to ASIA for SILK & SPICES for economic reasons (money)
• to claim more LAND


• to spread their RELIGION (Christianity)

What were the EXPLORERS ACCOMPLISHMENTS?

• Discovery of NEW LANDS
• Improvement of NAVIGATIONAL TOOLS
• ADDITION TO MAPS
• PRODUCTS & IDEAS EXCHANGED by different people

What OBSTACLES did Explorers face?

• No MAPS
• RUNNING our of FOOD & SUPPLIES • BAD WEATHER
• PROBLEMS W/CREW
• PROBLEMS W/NATIVES IN THE LANDS being EXPLORED (Indians)


Christopher Columbus



• Sailed for SPAIN
• ACCOMPL: Discovered "New World" in 1942
• OBST: death, no maps, hunger

Juan Ponce de Leon 2

• Sailed for SPAIN
• ACCOM:Discovered Florida
• OBST: fought with Native Americans.
• Searching for Fountain of youth and gold. He found neither.

Vasco Nunez Balboa 3

• Sailed from Spain
• ACCOMP: 1st to see PACIFIC OCEAN • OBST: Unchartered waters, fought w/Native Americans
• He was in search of gold and pearls

Jacques Cartier 4

• ACCOMP: Discovered St. Lawrence River in Canada, Newfoundland.
• ACCOMP: Helped France get rich with fur trade. • Sailded for FRANCE
• OBSTC: Unchartered waters, sailors caught diseases

John Cabot 5


• SAILED for ENGLAND
• ACCOMPL:Discovered Canada & found rich fishing area
• OBSTC: No Maps, looked for NW Passage but couldn't font it.

Henry Hudson 6

• SAILED from England
• ACCOMP: Discovered Hudson River in New York. Discovered Hudson Bay in Canada
• OBSTC:bad weather, malnutrition, fought w/crew
• Was in search for a water route to Asia called NORTHWEST PASSAGE