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European ExplorationCAUSES

Essential Question: What were the causes of European

exploration and colonization in the 15th century

(1400’s)?

Essential Question

►What were the

causes of

European

exploration and

colonization in the

15th Century?

3 G’s

►________

►________

►Glory

Gold

►In the 1400s, European countries were competing

with each other for ______________ ____________

• They competed for natural resources such as gold, ______,

and _________

►Spices were especially valuable and much in demand

►Many of these things could be found in ____________.

►Traders had to travel great and ______________________

distances over land to get these natural resources.

Gold and Natural Resources

►Transporting goods across

these great distances was

_________.

• Everyone along the way had to

be paid and wanted to earn a

_______________.

• By the time the spices and

goods reached __________,

they had to be sold at extremely

__________ ____________.

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Gold and Natural Resources

►European merchants

knew that if they would

trade directly with

people in Asia, they

could make enormous

_________________.

►In the 1400s, Europeans

began searching for a

__________ route to

______________.

God

►Some Europeans believed it

was their __________ to

spread the ___________

faith throughout the world.

• They felt that they could __________

the Native people they met on their

journeys into ___________________.

Glory

►As Europeans began exploring the Coast of Africa, they began settling ____________________.

• Colonizing new areas added to a country’s _______________ (meaning more natural resources, more ________________)

• Colonizing also opened _______________________.

►European countries could sell things to the people in these areas and make even more ________________.

Glory

►The more ____________ a country had, the more ______________ it had.

►More colonies meant more prestige or _____________.

• Countries began ____________________ with one another for colonies.

►When one Country takes over another it is called _______________________.

Prince Henry the Navigator

►Portugal

►Prince Henry the Navigator of __________ began the age of European exploration

• Prince Henry began Portugal’s exploration of Africa in the mid ________.

• He hired sailors who explored the coast of ____________ and opened the way for future journeys.

Prince Henry the Navigator

►Henry also opened a school

of ____________________

in Portugal.

• He wanted shipbuilders,

____________________,

sea captains, and

____________________

to learn and work

together.