The Search for Spices
Europeans Take to the Seas Traded with Asia for 100s of years Black Death disrupted Asian Trade routes Motivation: spices, silks, cottons Improved technology helped this movement
Portugese Pioneers Prince Henry the Navigator set up a navigation school Helped make settlements in Africa Bartholomew Dias rounded the tip of Africa Vasco Da Gama led 4 ships around the Cape of Good Hope
Spain Enters the Race Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 Financed by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain Was an Italian Tried to reach India by sailing West Took 3 ships: Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria Thought he reached India; called people he met Indians
Spain Enters the Race Columbus actually landed in the Bahamas Met the Tainos people Later went to the island of Hispaniola where he met the Arawak peoples He was the first European to discover America Called it the “New World”
Spain Enters the Race Naming the New World Amerigo Vespucci wrote about the New world It was named America after him Magellan named the Pacific Balboa found the Pacific Magellan sails to the Philippines