Sailors fears, the Portuguese, Henry The Navigator.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuRc5tgVnYo
See worksheet

2. • I am going to check myself: Can I explain what we have learned using
keywords?
• Today: I am learning to describe the contribution of the Portuguese
(Portugal)
• Henry the Navigator
• Homework: Explain how Henry the Navigator helped the Portuguese
lead the explorations
• Spellings

3. Exploration Discovery
Age Spice Trade
Great Silk Road Muslims
Sponsor Gold and Precious
Jewels
Land Asia
Africa Cinnamon
Nutmeg Cloves

4. Homework
• Summarize why people wanted to explore new sea routes
1. Because the Muslims blocked the Great Silk Road,………
2. Kings and queens sponsored voyages because they wanted….
3. In addition to this, people were curious about new places because
of …..
4. Religion is also a reason because
5. Finally, myths and legends encouraged people to explore. For
instance, they wanted to find….

5. • Caravels
• New Aids to Navigation
1. Compass
2. ...........................
3. ...........................
4. ...........................
5. ...........................
Without news aids to navigation and the caravel, it wouldn’t have been
possible….

6. Faster Lanteen
Sails
Square
Sails
Stronger Clinker
Built Hull
Over
lapping
planks of
wood
Bigger
rudder
Easier to
manouver

7. • What is it called?
• How does it work?
• What does it measure?

8. • What is it called?
• How does it work?
• What does it measure?

9. • What is it called?
• How do we spell it?
• What does it measure?

10. • What are these maps called?
• Why are they better than
portolan charts?

11. Captain Sea biscuits Weevils Beans Salted Fish
Fresh Fish Water Dysentery Starvation Scurvy
Lack of
Vitamin C
Thirst &
Starvation
Sea Monsters Storms Shipwreck
Drowning Hostile natives Sailing off the
side of the
earth

17. • Portugal
• The Portuguese
• Portu – guese
• They began the voyage of exploration
• They were the first

18. • Henry the Navigator
• Navigation
• To navigate
• Navigator
• Naviga – tor Page 153
• If it hadn’t been for Henry the Navigator, Portugal…..

20. • Published in 21st century
• Is your book a primary or
secondary source of evidence on
Henry the Navigator?

21. • Read
• Who was he?
• Why did he sponsor voyages of
Exploration?
• What did he do to help Portugal
to lead the explorations?

24. • Can I explain why Henry the
Navigator was important, using
keywords?
Prince Gold Africa Christianity Prester
John
School of
Navigation
Sagres Map
Makers
Navigators Sailors
Ship
Builders
Caravel Explored
Coast of
Africa
Portolan
Charts
2,500
KM
mapped

25. • Portugal would not have led the explorations, if it
hadn’t been for …………………………….

26. 1. Caravel
2. Clinker built hull
3. Lanteen
4. Explorations
5. Astrolabe
6. Dysentery
7. Portuguese
8. Navigation
9. Navigator
10. Sagres