https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks Early Explorers en-us 2020-08-16 21:02:47 UTC 2020-10-21 02:15:47 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.albinocrowgallery.com/images/mural-early-explorers.jpg corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/846741010 Some explorers were searching for new goods to trade, like gold, spices, silk, and foods such as pineapples and sweet potatoes. some were looking for new markets to trade in. ]]> 2020-10-20 21:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/846741010 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/846753330 When people first started exploring by sea, they stayed close to the coastline so they wouldn't get lost. Then explorers used the sun and stars to guide them. Later, they invented instruments to tell them where they were and where they were going. ]]> 2020-10-20 21:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/846753330 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/846759357 2020-10-20 21:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/846759357 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847016219 The reasons for these journeys were varied. Some Vikings were interested only in stealing treasure and capturing slaves. They plundered the unlucky communities they found in Britain and the Mediterranean. Other Vikings were in search of new lands across the Atlantic. Viking farmers needed new places to settle, as farmland in Scandinavia was scarce and poor. The Swedish Vikings set their sights on the lands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Mainly traders, these Vikings hoped to develop new markets for exchanging goods.]]> 2020-10-21 00:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847016219 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847019885 Along this road, trade was conducted between China and Europe. Chinese merchants sent silk and spices to Europe over the mountains and deserts of Asia.]]> 2020-10-21 00:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847019885 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847023752 2020-10-21 00:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847023752 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847060775 Marco Polo was a trader and great storyteller from Venice, Italy. He was the first European explorer to travel the entire length of the Silk Road in the thirteenth century. It took him four years, and he wrote about his travels. The Silk Road became less important after European ships began regular trade with China around the southern tip of Africa.]]> 2020-10-21 00:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847060775 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847061679 The Age of Exploration began in fifteenth-century Portugal. In 1415, Prince Henry of Portugal, known as Henry the Navigator, took command a port in northern Morocco. Henry sent out his ships to explore the west coast of Africa. He paid for many expeditions that eventually reached Sierra Leone on Africa's west coast. Later kings of Portugal financed expeditions that sailed around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa. This opened up trade routes to India, China, and the Indonesian and Philippine Islands (called the Spice Islands). Portugal became rich and powerful through its control of trade in this area.]]> 2020-10-21 00:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847061679 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847066211 The Age of Exploration eventually led explorers to the Americas in the late 1400s. Over the next two centuries, people began to move to this New World and settle in what is now the United States of America. Most of them stayed in the eastern part of the territory, leaving the western part wild and unknown. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson created the "Corps of Discovery"]]> 2020-10-21 00:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847066211 corteznairobys https://padlet.com/corteznairobys/Bookmarks/wish/847071360 The Shoshone culture was composed of various groups that divided into bands occupied areas of the east and west of the Rocky Mountains. Their language belongs to the numic branch of the Uto-Aztec family. Certain neighboring tribes designated them in their languages ​​as "those who live in grass huts", for Europeans they were "the serpents" or the "town of serpents". Their religion was based on a creator, and on the belief of dreams and visions.

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