The Age of Exploration Good times unless you are a native
Motives for European Exploration 1.Crusades by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. money 2.Renaissance curiosity about other lands and peoples. Mo money 3.Reformation refugees & missionaries. God 4.Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue. Mo Mo Money 5.Technological advances. Cool weapons 6.Fame and fortune. Glory= 3GS
New Maritime Technologies Hartman Astrolabe (1532) Better Maps [Portulan] Sextant Mariner’s Compass
New Weapons Technology
Vikings about 1000 AD ► Eric the Red and Leif Ericson ► Greenland and Newfoundland
Marco Polo ► 1275 ► Kublai Khan
Zheng He ► Ming Dynasty ► 1405 ► Muslim ► Africa and Middle East ► 1433
Zheng He’s Voyages
Prince Henry ( ) ► Portugal ► School of Navigation ► African cities/bases ► Gold and God
Museum of Navigation in Lisbon
Bartholomew Dias ► 1488 ► Cape of Good Hope
Christofo Colon [ ]
Columbus ► Genoa ► Trade Routes
The last discovery ► Oct 12, 1492 ► Rodrigo ► San Salvador ► The Arawak “Indians” ► Cuba, Hispaniola ► Granted Admiral of the Seas and 10%
Columbus’ Four Voyages
► 3 more voyages- Caribbean and Venezuela ► 1502 Charged with maladministration ► Died in 1506
Conflict between Spain and Portugal ► 1493 and 94 Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 & The Pope’s Line of Demarcation
Other explorers ► Vasco da Gama ► Pedro Alvares Cabral ► John Cabot ► Jacques Cartier ► Amerigo Vespucci