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Ch. 23: Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections I. European exploration of the oceans. A. Motives. 1. Resources. 2. Direct trade with the Far East. 3. Christian missionary efforts. B. Prince Henry the Navigator (Dom Henrique) of Portugal sponsored exploration of the western coast of Africa in the early 1400s. C. Europe-Asia by sea? The Portuguese! Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Vasco de Gama reached India in 1498. Great Age of Exploration Wind and current patterns in the world's oceans. • Page: 612 European exploration in the Atlantic Ocean, 1486-1498. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria II. Christopher Columbus of Genoa (Italy) A. Hero or villain? Discoverer or invader? One certainty: the world was transformed. B. Departed from Spain in August 1492. By October 1492, he reached the Bahamas. Three three subsequent voyages: 1493, 1498, 1502. C. Encountered Taino (Arawak) people on present-day Hispaniola. D. Discovered clockwise circulation of Atlantic winds and currents. III. Columbian Exchange Europe received Americas received Potatoes Horses, Cows, Tomatoes Pigs, Wheat, Gold Sugar, Rice, Silver Smallpox, Diphtheria, Corn Scarlet Fever, Chocolate Measles, Tobacco Enslaved Africans Syphilis IV. Amerigo Vespucci of Florence (Italy) A. Voyage to the Caribbean in 1498. First to call the lands, mundus novus (new world). Hence, in the 16th C., European geographers called the new continents, the Americas. V. Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal circumnavigated the globe from 1519 to 1522. Amerigo Vespucci Vasco da Gama Ferdinand Magellan European exploration in the Pacific Ocean, 15191780. • Page: 620 VI. Other important marine navigators included Vasco de Balboa (Pacific Ocean), Vitus Bering (Bering Strait), and James Cook (Pacific Ocean islands). VII. Powerful trading companies formed such as the British East India Company and the United (Dutch) East India Company (VOC). VIII. European conquests of Southeast Asia: Spain (the Philippines) and the Dutch (Java, which is part of Indonesia). Vasco de Balboa Vitus Bering James Cook European trading posts in Africa and Asia, 1700 • Page: 624 IX. The Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). A. England and Prussia versus France, Austria, and Russia. B. First global war. Conflict in the American colonies known as the French and Indian Wars. C. Results of the war helped put Britain in a powerful world trading position.