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AGE OF
EXPLORATION
Ottoman
Empire
1453
Silk Road
& Spice
Trade
Italian CityStates
Find our own
trade
routes
Anyone know
how?
created
Return of education and
knowledge
Desire for wealth/trade guilds
Open mindedness/ curiousness
Religious zeal
The Italians have no desire to
search for new trade routes
Cristoforo Colombo
Is it a coincidence that
he’s Italian?
Astrolabe – Greek origin
Compass – Chinese origin, perfected in
Europe
Quadrant – proposed by Ptolemy,
invented in Islamic Empire
Caravel ship – Portuguese invention
Lateen sail – Roman times
Later the sextant
Portugal
What did they accomplish?
Strong
govt.
support
Trade ports along African
coast
Prince
Henry
1488-Bartholomeu Dias
sailed around Cape of
Good Hope
1498 – Vasco de Gama
sailed to India
Spain
Ferdinand & Isabella united
Spain under Catholicism
Christopher Columbus
wanted to find a trade
route to the west
Believed he had
reached Asia when
really it was N.
America
Jews and Muslims
were expelled from
Spain
Portugal & Spain
became rivals
Pope Alexander VI
stepped in to help
The Pope created the Line of Demarcation in 1493.
 Drawn North to South – gave Spain all land West and
Portugal all land East
 In 1494 it was moved further west and Treaty of Tordesillas
was signed
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Spanish conquistador who
first viewed and named the
Pacific Ocean
Amerigo Vespucci
America is named for
this Italian sea captain
who voyaged to the new
world and mapped the
area
Ferdinand Magellan
He was Portuguese but
sailed for Spain to
discover the way to reach
Asia from the west.
Northwest Passage
Various explorers tried to sail from the
Atlantic to the Pacific by going through the
Arctic Ocean
He died in the
Philippines, but one of
his ships returned to
Spain – making his
voyage the first to
“circumnavigate” the
globe