The Age of Discovery The Search for Spices.

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The Age of Discovery The Search for Spices

I. Europeans Take to the Seas Crusades add luxury goods and demand increases Europe’s pop. is growing Spices Muslim & Italian Middlemen $, religion, adventure Better technology (caravel, cartog., astrolabe, sextent, mag. Compass, canons etc.)

II. Portugal Leads the Way Prince Henry heard tales of rich Christian Kingdom in Africa Gathered best sailors, scientists, cartographers to explore the W. coast of Africa (@ Sagres, Portugal) Prince Henry the Navigator Prester John

1488: Dias 1st European to round southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) 1497: Vasco Da Gama makes 10 month journey to India and returns make 3000% profit Early Exploration Problems/Struggles: hunger, boredom, thirst, scurvy

III. Spain Enters the Race $ profits from other exploration voyages encouraged new countries to join the race

Columbus convinced King & Queen of Spain he could reach the Indies by sailing West Underestimated the circumference and 2 continents Line of Demarcation & Treaty of Tordesillas between Sp (W) & Portugal (E) German cartog. named the new continents after Amerigo Vespucci Cabral: Brazil, Portugal

IV. The Search Continues Looking for a shortcut (Balboa, Sp., Panama) Magellan, 2 yr voyage, mutinies, storms, rotted food 18/250 survived, 1/5 of the ships He died in Phillipines 1st to circumnavigate

England, Netherlands, and France also joined the race. They were looking for the Northwest Passage. Cabot (Eng)- Canada, Newfoundland Cartier (Fr) – St. Lawrence River Hudson (Neth) –Hudson Bay Fish, fur, trees – colonies hard to establish