Exploration What were the reasons for and impact of European exploration? Does exploration always produce positive changes?

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Exploration What were the reasons for and impact of European exploration? Does exploration always produce positive changes?

Early Exploration-Interacting with New Cultures When Europeans began to explore the seas in the late 1400s they came in contact with many new peoples, places, and things. What can happen when cultures meet? Economically? Politically? Socially?

IMAGINE you are one of the Spaniards or Native Americans pictured here……

Explorers and their Purpose for Exploring Investigate chapter 15, section 1: The Search for Spices to discover: The purpose of early exploration New technologies Major early Explorers (such as Columbus!) Areas explored/’discovered’ by Europeans

The Search for Spices- A review Demand for trade goods in Europe Most valued were spices such as cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and pepper. What were they used for? Sought a direct route to the riches of Asia

New Techniques and Technologies Cartographers Caravel Astrolabe

Explorers for Portugal Henry the Navigator Bartholomeu Dias Vasco Da Gama *Travel around Africa to get to Asia

Early explorers

Columbus Sails West Financed by Spain (though he was Italian) They wanted new sources of wealth (GOLD) They wanted to spread Christianity (GOD)

Splitting up the New World *Line of Demarcation: dividing line between Portugal and Spain

Circumnavigating the Globe Magellan attempted to sail around the world. Spice trade role playing http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/spicetrade/begintrip.php3