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Chapter 14 “Beginning of Our
Global Age: Europe, Africa, and
Asia”
Section 1: “The Search for Spices”
Why Explore?
• Spices:
– Preserve food
– Flavor to meat
– medicines.
– perfumes
Moluccas or “Spice Islands”
Portugal
• Prince Henry
– Sponsors
exploration
– Convert Africans
to Christianity
– Easier route to
Africa
Portugal
• Cartographers:
– Mapmakers
– Redesigned
ships
– Prepare maps
– Trained captains
Goal: India
Calicut
• Vasco de Gama
– 10 month voyage
• Calicut: spice port
– Sailors die of
hunger, thirst,
scurvy
– Portugal world
power
Columbus and Spain
• Christopher
Columbus
– East Indies
– Sail across Atlantic
– Ferdinand and
Isabella of Spain
finance trip
– Nina, Pinta, Santa
Maria
Dividing Globe
• Line of Demarcation
– Portugal: west of line
– Spain: east of line
• Treaty of Tordesillas
– Signed in 1494
• Martin Waldseemuller
(cartographer) calls
“America” after
Amerigo Vespucci
Direct Route
• Northwest passage
• Ferdinand Magellan
(1519): South
America
– 1522: finally reach
Spain through Pacific
• Circumnavigate: sail
around