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Age of Exploration
1450 – 1750
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdO0QTmxIU
Technological Advances
1. Improved navigational methods:
- magnetic compass
and astrolabe
- improved maps and
charts
2.
Improved ship designs
Example- the caravel ship
- allowed sailing with and
against the wind
3. Improved weapons
- gunpowder and cannons
Why would this be important?
Motives for Exploration
The 3 G’s
1. Wealth (GOLD)
2. Religion (GOD)
(convert new people to Christianity)
3. Fame (GLORY)
“Gold” aka- wealth
Tried to gain access to the spice
trade, including sugar and silk
(Arab and Italian merchants had
a monopoly)
Tried to find new sources of wealth
(gold and silver) and to expand
their markets
Portugal and Spain
Portugal led the way
in exploration
-Prince Henry the Navigator encouraged
exploration and the study of
improvements in seafaring.
-He set up a navigational school to teach
Europeans the newest sailing techniques
Portugal
Location,
location,
location!
Portugal –
Explored Africa
while trying to
get to India
Portuguese explorers:
1. Bartholomeu Dias - first to
sail around the southern tip
ofAfrica
2. Vasco da Gama - discovered an
all water trade route between
Portugal and India.
Spanish Explorers
1. Christopher Columbus:
-Sailed West to try to
reach Asia.
-1st to reach the New
World during the Age
of Exploration
2. Ferdinand Magellan:
-attempted to find a
western route to Asia the first to circumnavigate the earth.
(1519-1522)
3. Hernan Cortes:
-arrived in
Mexico in 1519.
-defeated the
Aztecs.
4. Francisco Pizarro:
-arrived in central
America
-defeated the
Incas.
5. Amerigo Vespucci
-Explored the coast of the newly
discovered lands in the New World
-Suggested Columbus had actually
discovered a new world
-Vespucci’s name begins to appear on
maps of the New World
-The Americas were named after him
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Spain and Portugal signed a treaty
dividing the newly discovered lands
between the two nations