1. Portugal, Spain, and the Age of Exploration
Prince Henry the Navigator; Caravels, Maps, Astrolabes, and Quadrants; Prester John; Bartolomeu Dias, Christopher Columbus, Giovanni Caboto, and Amerigo Vespucci; The Taino
Felix Flies | Age of Exploration |
Websites
Videos |
Pearson Prentice Hall - Interactive map: Early Voyages of Exploration
The BioPhiles - Scurvy: Brought to you by evolution Wired.com - Fantastically Wrong: Magellan’s Strange Encounter With the 10-Ft Giants of Patagonia Khan Academy - Vitamin C and the Limeys TEDEd - How Magellan circumnavigated the globe Mozaik 3D - The first circumnavigation of the globe The Map as History - Age of Discovery playlist (login first!): Vasco da Gama’s voyage 1497-1498; Portuguese Volta (The ‘Loop’); Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean; The Treaties of Tordesillas (1494) and Saragossa (1529); Magellan’s voyage 1519-1522 |