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UNIT 6
Day 48: Exploration
CRASH COURSE
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Renaissance: https://youtu.be/Vufba_ZcoR0
Luther and Prot. Ref:
https://youtu.be/1o8oIELbNxE
MOTIVATIONS
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Spices, direct access to Asia (Spice Islands)
 1400s, Italians and Arab merchants control trade
 More profitable to trade directly with Asia
Renaissance curiosity to seek new land
PORTUGAL SAILS EAST
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Prince Henry the navigator
 Sponsors ($$) explorers from Portugal
 Ultimate goal: find way around Africa to
Asia
 Hires cartographers (mapmakers),
scientists
1415 expands into Muslim N. Africa for riches
 Convert Africans (Muslim/tribal) to
Christianity
1460 Bartholomeu Dias rounded So. tip of
Africa
 “Cape of Good Hope”—open new route to
Asia
1497 Vasco da Gama sails to India
 Vast trading empire starts, P is world power
COLUMBUS SAILS WEST
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Italian navigator: Christopher Columbus
 Wants to reach East Indies by sailing West
(Atlantic)
 All educated Europeans know earth is
sphere
 Columbus underestimated Earth’s size…
Sponsored by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
 Needed $ for kingdom after expelling
Jews/Muslims
1492, C sails 3 ships: Nina, Pinta, Santa
Maria
 Provisions low, stopped at first land spotted
 Cruised Caribbean Islands, called people
Indians
 3 more voyages
DIVIDING GLOBE IN HALF
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1493, at Spain’s request, Pope divided
non-Europe into 2 zones
 Line of Demarcation: Spain gets West,
Portugal gets East
 Agreed to in the Treaty of
Tordesillas (1494)
Other nations feel threatened and explore
Italy: 1507 Amerigo Vespucci
 Explored Brazil, region named
America
“Americas” = both continents of Western
Hemisphere
Islands disc. By Columbus still called
West Indies
SEARCH FOR DIRECT ROUTE TO ASIA
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No one found a “northwest passage”
1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spain)
 Hacked passage west through Panama
tropical forest
 Thought Pacific was the “South Sea”
Ferdinand Magellan: 1519
 “Circumnavigated” the world…at least his
crew did
 From Spain to S America (Named Pacific
Ocean)
 Landed in Philippines, M died from poison
dart
 Crew returns home, 18 sailors left
OTHER COUNTRIES EXPLORE
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Netherlands
 Dutch East India Company,
trading empire
 Trade with China and Spice
Islands
Spain
 Seize Philippines, 1521,
colonized
English and French traders fight
over India
 Under Mughal rule
 Eng and Fr est East India
Trading Co’s
INTRO: EXPLORER BIO PROJECT
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Due April 7th (Thursday) before teacher workday
Use Microsoft Publisher to make brochure
 There are templates you can use!
 Print, if possible, so your project can be displayed