The First Global Age: Europe and Asia Chapter 15 The First Global Age: Europe and Asia
Section 1 The Search for Spices
APWH Themes: 1 – Interaction between Humans & the Environment 2 – Development & Interaction of Cultures 3 – State-building, expansion, and conflict 4 – Creation, Expansion & Interaction of Economic Systems
Essential Questions: Why did Europeans begin exploring the known world Essential Questions: Why did Europeans begin exploring the known world? What new technology helped them do it? What non-European cultures were affected by this exploration?
Overland Trade Routes from Asia
Cartographers at Work
World Map from Genoa, 1457
Astrolabe
Caravel
Prince Henry “The Navigator” (1394-1460)
Bartholomew Dias (c. 1450-1500)
Dias’ Voyage Rounding Cape of Good Hope
Bartholomew Dias Rounding the Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama (c. 1469-1524)
Christopher Columbus (c. 1451-1506)
Columbus’ First Voyage Route
Santa Maria Replica
Columbus lands in the New World
Line of Demarcation
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)
Vasco Nùñez de Balboa (1475-1519)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
Trying to find the Northwest Passage
The Real Northwest Passage Navigated 1903-1906