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Exploring the Seas
 The Crusades introduced Europeans to luxury
goods from Asia.
 Wanted spices
 Preserved food, make medicines and perfumes
 Came from Moluccas
 Wanted direct access to Asia instead of
dealing with a middle man
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 What factors encouraged European
exploration?
 Wanted spices from Asia.
Portugal Sails East
 Prince Henry wanted to expand his country
 Africa was the target
 Convert them to Christianity
 Wanted an easier way to Asia (around Africa)
 Cartographers to redesign ships, make maps, and
trained captains
India
 1497 Vasco de Gama
 Reached India
 Many died on the way home
 Sold the spices for a huge
profit
 Set up a trade network
 People stayed there and
bought @ low prices
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 How did Portuguese exploration lead to the creation
of a trading empire?
 Searched for a trade route to India. Found it and
then left people to buy @ low prices
Columbus
 Italian who wanted to follow
in Portugal’s success
 Thought if he began sailing
West he would reach the
East Indies
 Greatly underestimated the
Earth’s size
 2 continents were in the way
Spanish Sponsors
 Portugal wouldn’t sponsor Columbus but Spain
would
 Hoped it would bring them wealth and prestige
 1492 sailed west with 3 ships (Nina, Pinta, Santa
Maria)
 Over a month before they saw land
 In the Caribbean but thought he was in the Indies
 Didn’t realize for awhile that they really had come
to new lands
Dividing the Globe in Half
 1493 Spain asked the Pope to support their claim
to the new world
 Pope set a Line of Demarcation
 Spain had trading in W of line
 Portugal had them E of the line
 Treaty of Tordesillas
 Signed between Spain and Portugal to lay out the
specific line
Naming the Western
Hemisphere
 Amerigo Vespucci wrote a journal describing his
voyage to Brazil
 Cartographer Martin Waldseemuller made a map
from the description and called them the Americas
 The islands Columbus found were called the West
Indies
Search for a Direct Route
 Sill hadn’t found a direct route to Asia
 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa cut his way through
Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean
 Ferdinand Magellan left from Spain to reach the
Pacific
 Strait of Magellan @ the bottom of S America
 Wanted to circumnavigate the world
 Thought it wouldn’t take long
 3 years total
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 What was the significance of Balboa’s discovery?
 Found another ocean on the other side of the
Americas.