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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