Date: January 12-13, 2016

The Age of Exploration: Europe's Early Exploration (19.1)

Objectives:
1. We will understand the reasons for exploration and why sailors were able to explore.
2. We will be able to discuss early conflicts that emerged because of exploration.
3. We will be able to explain which European countries came to dominate early exploration and
trade
For "God, Glory, and Gold"

Sparked by Renaissance spirit of adventure and curiosity

o Exploration Encouraged:
New trade routes around Muslim held lands and
Italian Merchants
Nice Items (spices, gold, silk and other luxury
items) (Gold)
Spread Christianity (God)
Expand for Monarchs (Glory)

Improved Technology Allows for Exploration

New vessel:
o The caravel
o Sturdier
o Triangular sails
stronger against the wind
o Large cargo area
o Shallow draft allowed it to explore close to the
shore
o Sextant was an instrument used to determine
latitude and longitude
Adapt Muslim and Chinese technology
o Compass(Chinese) to navigate

Portuguese Take the Lead

Portuguese Prince Henry "The Navigator" consumed with finding

new lands for Christianity and wealth
o Establishes school for navigation
Portuguese Explorer Bartolomeu Dias reopened European path
around Cape of Good Hope (1488)
o Effort to Christianize
Vasco da Gama (1498) reaches Calicut, India
o da Gamas remarkable 27,000 mile journey was worth 60 times
the cost of the trip and provided Portugal with a direct sea route
to India (a way around Italian merchants and Muslim traders)
Has spices, silks, gems

Spain Joins the Race

Da Gama

Date: January 12-13, 2016

1492 Spain invests in Italian Christopher Columbus

to find Asia by sailing west
o Mistaken that he reached the East Indies
Treaty of Tordesillas establishes Line of Demarcation
(Spain west of, Portugal east of line)
Settle dispute over who has the land because they
think Columbus is in the Indies
o Spain becomes power of region

Portuguese Fade from Power and the Dutch Rise

(Netherlands)

Portugal gained power of "Spice Islands" in Indian Ocean

through military
o Dutch and English Challenge Power
o Both create an East India Company
Act like governments (make money, sign
treaties, raise armies)
o The Dutch dominates Indonesia and southern tip of Africa
by 1700
Dutch East India Company was richer more
powerful than British East India Company
France and England gain in India
Key Idea:
o Europe still had little impact on Asian people
o The Age of Exploration would begin a competitive and
pursuit that would lead the Europeans to India, the Far
and eventually the New World.

Dutch East India

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expensive
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