Age of exploration

By Sasha_cobos
  • Feb 7, 900

    Norse Vikings

    Norse Vikings
    Leif Eriksson, discovered Greenland around 1200 CE.
    Norse sailors explored and settled limited areas on the shores of present-day Greenland and Canada.
  • Feb 7, 1400

    AGE OF EXPLORATION

    AGE OF EXPLORATION
    France afounded colonies in the Americas:
    •Eastern North America,
    •a number of Caribbean islands,
    •and small coastal parts of South America. •Portugal:
    •Colonized Brazil
  • Feb 7, 1492

    EUROPEAN EXPLORATION/EXPANSION

    EUROPEAN EXPLORATION/EXPANSION
    Collapse of Byzantine Empire cut off Europe from overland trade with East Asia Extensive European colonization began in 1492
  • Feb 7, 1492

    Colombian Exchange

    Colombian Exchange
    Period of the Columbian Exchange, dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable disease, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian
  • Feb 7, 1492

    AGE OF DISCOVERY

    AGE OF DISCOVERY
    •Spain to be the first European power to settle and colonize the largest areas, from North America and the Caribbean to the southern tip of South America.
  • Feb 7, 1494

    Spain and Portugal drive the exploration

    Spain and Portugal drive the exploration
    •Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
    •Ratified by the Pope, these 2 kingdoms divided the entire non-European world into 2 areas of exploration and colonization
  • Feb 7, 1497

    Later explorers

    Later explorers
    •Vasco de Gama – 1497 sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India and helped establish European trade in the Indian Ocean.
    •Ferdinand Magellan – 1519 proved the world was round by circumnavigating the globe.