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Social Studies Early Exploration: Lesson 9 – Vasco da Gama
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Social Studies
Early Exploration:
Lesson 9 – Vasco da Gama
Why did Vasco da Gama
explore his world and what were his
accomplishments?
Will the real Vasco da
Gama please stand up?
Act 1
Portugal hoped to be the first to find an all water route to Asia.
Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator
BartholomewDiaz
King John II
Will the real Vasco da
Gama please stand up?
Act 2
King Manuel I
The crew threatened to
mutiny!
Vasco da Gama
Portugal
Cape Verde
Will the real Vasco da
Gama please stand up?
Act 3
Will the real Vasco da
Gama please stand up?
Act 4
Will the real Vasco da
Gama please stand up?
Act 5
Vasco returns to Portugal and is
greeted by the King
Tomb of Vasco da Gama in Portugal
Will the real Vasco da
Gama please stand up?
Why did Vasco da Gama
explore his world and what were his
accomplishments?
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Vasco da Gama
Reason for Exploration
He wanted to find an all water route from Europe to
Asia.
Accomplishments
He was the first European to find an
all water route around Africa to Asia.
Vasco da Gama
being the first person to find an all water route from Europe to Asia by sailing around Africa.
How did the discoveries of early explorers help people learn about their world?
Name of Explorer
Reason for Exploring
Accomplishments
Other ImportantFacts
Leif
Ericsson
Reason for Exploring:He was curious about new
land another sailor had spotted and wanted to find wood and other resources.
Accomplishment:He was the first European to set foot on the continent
of North America.
He and his crew spent the winter in North
America in a place he called Vinland.
Marco
Polo
Reason for Exploring:He went to China in
search of goods, such as silk, spices, and jewels.
Accomplishment:He wrote a book that
inspired other explorersto reach China.
He traveled on a series of trade routes called the Silk Road that stretched from the Mediterranean
Sea to China.
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Prince Henry
the Navigator
Reason for Exploring:He wanted to get gold and other riches from Africa, and he wanted to find an all water route to Asia.
Accomplishment:He started a school for
navigation, ship building, and mapmaking, and he
sponsored expeditions of discovery down the west
coast of Africa.
He did not sail on any voyages of discovery.
Bartholomew
Diaz
Reason for Exploring:He wanted to find an all water route from Europe
to Asia.
Accomplishment:He was the first European
to travel around the southern tip of Africa.
He wanted to name the southern tip of Africa the Cape of Storms, but King
John II renamed it the Cape of Good Hope.
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Christopher
Columbus
Reason for Exploring:He wanted to find an all
water route to the Far East (Asia) by sailing westward.
Accomplishment:He discovered
land in the Americas.
He thought he had reached India, so he
called the people there Indians.
Amerigo
Vespucci
Reason for Exploring:He was curious about the world.
Accomplishment:He traveled to the
New World on purpose and explored land there.
America was named after him.
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Vasco da
Gama
Reason for Exploring:He wanted to find an all water route from Europe
to Asia.
Accomplishment:He was the first European to find an all water route around Africa to Asia.
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