Age of Exploration Notes PDF

# Age of Exploration Notes | Explorer | Purpose/Mission | Route | Obstacles? | Why was this explorer important to TX History? | |---|---|---|---|---| | Columbus 1492 | Find new trade routes from Europe to India/East Asia. | Intended Route: Europe to India & East Asia <br> Actual Route: Landed in th...

# Age of Exploration Notes | Explorer | Purpose/Mission | Route | Obstacles? | Why was this explorer important to TX History? | |---|---|---|---|---| | Columbus 1492 | Find new trade routes from Europe to India/East Asia. | Intended Route: Europe to India & East Asia <br> Actual Route: Landed in the Caribbean | North America was in the way | Started the European exploration process to North America | | Cortez 1519 | Find a new location for a Spanish settlement | Intended Route: Find new land for Spain <br> Actual Route: Lands in "Mexico" | Had to take over the Aztecs | Established New Spain & Mexico | | Pineda 1519 | Was tasked with mapping the coastline of the New World. | Intended Route: Map the coastline of the island of Florida. <br> Actual Route: Mapped the Gulf of Mexico | Turned out Florida was a peninsula and not an island, so he followed it around into the Gulf of Mexico and mapped what would be the Texas coastline. | He created the first maps of the Texas coastline. | | Cabeza De Vaca 1527 | Trip 1: Joined Narvaez's expedition to find the Three G's <br> Trip 2: Travel to Mexico | Trip 1 Intended Route: Wanted to conquer land between Florida & Mexico <br> Trip 1 Actual Route: Storm left them in present day Galveston <br> Trip 2 Intended & Actual Travel to MX | Trip 1: Storms, native tribes (Karankawa), disease, exposure <br> Trip 2: Huge mountain range | First explorer to travel through present day Texas. | | Coronado 1535 | Was tasked with finding the cities of gold (Cibola) | Intended Route: Find the gold in the city of Cibola <br> Actual Route: Found Cibola, but no gold! | There was no gold! <br> He was lied to by the Native Americans | Discovered many landmarks including Grand Canyon & Palo Duro Canyon. <br> Reports Texas is good for farming, but that there is no gold or anything of real value in Texas | | La Salle 1682 | Round 1: Discover and claim land for France <br> Round 2: Return to Louisiana to found french colony | Trip 1 Actual & Intended Route: Great Lakes down Mississippi River <br> Trip 2 Intended: Return to Louisiana <br> Trip 2 Actual Route: Missed Louisiana and landed in Matagorda Bay | Trip 1: Griffon sank, but otherwise went well. <br> Trip 2: Lost ship in the storm, missed his return location, mutiny, surprise attacks. | First French explorer to enter present day Texas <br> Landed in Matagorda Bay, established short lived Fort Louis, and brought attention to trading in Texas. | ## Unit 3 Vocabulary: Age of Exploration | Vocab Term | Definition | In Your Own Words | |---|---|---| | Exploration | Traveling in or through an unfamiliar place to learn about it | | | Expedition | A journey with a specific purpose | | | Conquistador | Soldier and explorer from Spain who was looking for the 3 G's: God, Gold, and Glory | | | Reconquista | A period of 780 years of fighting between Christian Kingdoms and Muslim Moors (from Northern Africa) over control of the southwest lands of Europe | | | New Spain | Land in the Americas claimed by Spain that included present-day Texas and Mexico. Spain wanted to get resources and wealth from New Spain. | | | Northwest Passage | A sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of North America, above Canada | | | Columbian Exchange | The spread of foods, diseases, ideas, & people between the Old and New World | |