the age of exploration
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The Age of Exploration. Europe Asia and the A mericas. Motivation. Gold Glory God. Search for Spices. Europeans desired luxury goods and spices from the East. Spices were very expensive Food Medicines Perfumes. Trade routes. Land routes between Europe and Asia were unreliable. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Age of Exploration
Europe Asia and the Americas
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Motivation
• Gold • Glory • God
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Search for Spices
• Europeans desired luxury goods and spices from the East.– Spices were very
expensive– Food– Medicines– Perfumes
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Trade routes
• Land routes between Europe and Asia were unreliable.– Threat from barbarians – Muslim traders cut off the trade routes to the
East.• Italian city states were the only ones granted trading
privileges with the Muslims
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Search for new trade routes
• Hoping to bypass the Muslim and Italian traders who controlled the rich Asian spice trade, Europeans sought a new sea route to Asia.
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Advances in technology
• helped European explorers navigate the vast oceans of the world.
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Improved ships
• Caravel• Carrack
• Rudders, masts, weapons
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Navigational tools
• Cartography –– Improved maps
• Astrolabe and Quadrant– Latitude
• Compass• Directions
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1400s- 1600s
• Age of Global Exploration– Portugal– Spain– Netherlands (the Dutch)– England– France
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Portugal in the 1400s
• Pioneers in exploration• Superior military power.• Began exploring the
African Coast.• They controlled the
spice trade between Europe and Asia for most of the 1500s.
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Prince Henry the Navigator
• Portuguese Prince• Naval School at Sagres– Built ships– Created maps– Studied astronomy– Developed tools– Trained men
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Vasco de Gama
• Found the passage around the Cape of Good Hope to India.
• His discovery of this route allowed Portugal to dominate the spice trade.
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Christopher Columbus
• Financed by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
• Searching for a sea route west to Asia.
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Columbus
• Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria.
• Landed in the Caribbean, though he believed it was the Indies
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Americas
• Gold, silver and other riches.• Led to numerous expeditions first from
Portugal and Spain and other European countries.
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Columbian Exchange
• Transfer of foods, diseases, animals from one continent to the other as a result of explorations
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• 1494 The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the world between Spain and Portugal for the alleged purpose of spreading Christianity.
• Line of Demarcation determined by Pope Alexander VI
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Explorations continued
• Portugal and Spain led the way in overseas exploration.
• Later, the English, French, and Dutch joined.• Circumnavigation of the Globe• Search for a northwest passage to Asia.
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Problems at sea
• Storms• Rough waters• Tropical heat• Shipwrecks• Scurvy• Lack of drinking water
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Impact of Explorations
• European supremacy in the world– Imperialism
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Impact of Exploration
Positive• Global interdependence• Increased trade• Increased knowledge of the
Earth
Negatives• Conflicts between regions,
countries and people• Exploitation and destruction
of native peoples• Slave trade