exploring america 1400-1625"
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The Age of Exploration Exploring the Americas
1400-1625
Marco Polo
• Wrote a book called….• Polo’s Travels..• Told the story of exotic lands and people, cities
and riches
New land?????Thanks Marco….
• New Items start to show up in the market place…
• Merchants could make a fortune selling these new goods….
• Cinnamon, pepper, cloves, and silk
New Ideas…it is called a what...?
Renaissance
• Period of artistic creativity
• Period of Intellectual Creativity
Encouraged Europeans to set new goals and paved way for ……
Exploration
Powerful Nations 1400s
• Spain • Portugal• England• France
• Established national Laws
• Courts• Taxes• Armies
I am King/Queen ...And I want
• Money
• =
• Power
How do I get this POWER
• Increase Trade
• Make country Stronger
• Wealthier
• Money
• Equals
• Power
Tecnology’s Impact
• Better maps
• Astrolabe
• Better ships
• Caravel
A GPS in the 1400s
• This item measured the stars to help the explorers.
• This item could be considered a front runner to today’s GPS System.
You mean I don’t have to rewrite It
In the 1450s …the
Advancement led to Increased Exploration
And created
Diversity