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The Age of Exploration
1400s – 1600s
Chapter 13
Essential Questions
1. What were the three main motives for
exploration?
2. Which explorers and countries were
most noteworthy during this time?
3. What resulted from the voyages?
EQ: Why was Europe interested in the Asia? What
was the major dilemma in getting what they wanted?
Europe wanted to trade in Asia, but hated and was
afraid of Muslims in between them. No land or routes
to trade around them yet and the Muslims would only
trade Asian goods with Italy.
What made exploration possible?
Technology:
Smaller, sturdy ships called
caravels with a smaller crew.
More accurate maps
Mariner’s compass
Weapons: Cannons and guns.
What were the three motives for
exploration?
1. God: Wanting to Christianize heathens
(especially Muslims), cultural superiority,
“white man’s burden.” *Like U.S. Imperialism
2. Glory: Spirit of adventure and curiosity during
renaissance, fame, nationalism. *Manifest Destiny,
Turner thesis
3. Gold: Rulers who trade with Asia get rich and
powerful. Merchants who sell Asian goods in Europe
make a lot of money. *Trade today
Previously
unknown Asian goods
in high demand since
Crusades.
Portuguese Exploration Leads the
Way: Henry the Navigator
1..
Prince Henry the
Navigator spends his own
money on a school of
navigation, to create better
maps, navigation tools and
ships.
2. Set up trade and colonies
on east coast of Africa.
Used cannons to negotiate
trade rights with locals.
Explain what Magellan did in 1519
First to circumnavigate the world
Sailed west from Spain, cut through S. America at the Straight of
Magellan to Pacific, sailed and starved for one month to Asia.
Magellan dies in Philippians. Crew finishes without him.
Portugal and Spain will begin the Slave Trade More this later
How did the Pope keep Spain and Portugal from
fighting over newly discovered lands?
Line of Demarcation (1493: Spain tells Pope about
discovery New World. Pope divides non-Christian
world between Portugal and Spain so they don’t fight
Line give Portugal Brazil and everything east
Spain becomes the big winner
getting the New World
Sugar Becomes the Cash Crop
With out sugar their would be no
slavery.Without Slavery there
would be no Sugar.
What did Columbus Discover???
Discovered America??? Well not our America
Columbus and the Real
Meaning of 1492
• The Moors entered Spain
and controlled much of
Spain beginning with
Umayyad Empire in
711AD
• By 1492 Queen Isabella and
King Ferdinand kicked the
Moors out of Spain.
• In the same year, Spanish
kicked out the Jewish
population (this was know as
the Diaspora (disperse)
Columbus offered a new way to the East by avoiding
the Middle East thus avoiding Muslim and Jews.
Shortly after this the pope granted Spain permission to
weed out Heresy among its people. this would be know
as the Spanish Inquisition. This Inquisition would last
hundreds of years and torture and kill millions of people