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Age of Exploration
Ch 19 Sec. 1
After the Crusades
• Europeans still want spices & luxuries from Asia but
lands are Muslim controlled
• Italians controlled trade of goods from east to west
& got rich
• Other countries want to trade to get rich too
For “God, Glory, and Gold”
• Desire for wealth & to spread Christianity main reasons
for exploration
• Europeans seek trade routes to Asia for spices & luxury
goods
• Try to find direct sea route to Asia
Sea Routes to from Europe to Asia?
2 direct sea routes
Sailing innovations
• Portuguese leaders in
making innovations
• Caravel
– Ship could sail in
shallow water closer to
shore
Prince Henry (Portugal)
• Son of Portugal’s king
• Founded a navigational
school in Portugal
• Mapmakers, instrument
makers, shipbuilders & sea
captains met to learn their
trade
Astrolabe
Sextant
How to use a Sextant
Compass
Explorers
• Bartolomeu Dias
(Portugal): 1st to sail
around southern tip
of Africa
• Vasco da Gama
(Portugal): Sailed
around southern tip
& along East African
coast. Found sea
route from Portugal
to India
Cape of
Good
Hope
Explorers
• Christopher Columbus (Spain): 1st European to
discover Americas
• Landed on island in Caribbean
• Thought he was in East Indies islands
East Indies (in orange)
Naval Rivalry
• Between Spain & Portugal
• Both countries were competing for claims to
new lands
Spain
Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
• Pope steps in to keep
peace
• Suggests imaginary
dividing line called the
“Line of Demarcation”
• Land west of line =
lands Spanish can claim
• Land east of line = lands
Portuguese can claim
Dutch East India Company
• From the Netherlands
• By 1600 owned the largest fleet in
the world
– 20,000 ships
• Eroded Portuguese presence and
dominated the Indian Ocean trade
• Became very rich
• Eventually British, Dutch, French,
Spanish, and Portuguese,
competed for Asian trade
• British would focus on specific
trading posts in India instead of
trying to maximize trade all over
Indian Ocean