The Age of Exploration
The Back-story Reasons for exploration… Conversion… Gov’t interest… Curiosity… Spices… Material profit… Trade routes…
The Back - story Advances that aided in exploration…. Magnetic compass… Telescope… Map-making… Shipbuilding… Stern-mounted rudders… Mentality…
The Explorers Portugal east to the Indies… Prince Henry and his Captains… Dias…1457-1500 Da Gama…1460-1524 Cabral…1467-1520 Set up 1st Commercial-Colonial Empire…de Albuquerque…
The Explorers Spain west to the Indies… Columbus…1492-1504 The Conquistadors…1510-1550… The Empire…
Others… England… France… Dutch… Spain… Cabots (Father & Son)… Drake… Hudson… Raleigh… Smith… France… Cartier… Cadillac… Champlain… De La Salle… Verrazzano Dutch… Stuyvesant… Spain… Vespucci…
The Results of Exploration – The Commercial Revolution Changes in production… driven by demand… Changes in funding… driven by “capitalism”… Changes in role of government in economy… driven by “nationalism”… Changes in social structures… which would last until the 1800s… Deepening of East / West European divide… step forward vs. step back…