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What fueled the Age of Exploration and how did change the balance of power in the world?

Earlier Explorations 1.Islam & the Spice Trade  Moluccas 2.A New Player  Europe Marco Polo, Chinese Admiral Zheng He & the Ming “Treasure Fleet” W

Map of the Known World pre- 1492

Motives for European Exploration 1.Crusades  by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. 2.Renaissance  curiosity about other lands and peoples. 3.Reformation  refugees & missionaries. 4.Gold 5.Technological advances. 6.Fame and fortune. W

New Maritime Technologies Hartman Astrolabe (1532) Better Maps Sextant Mariner’s Compass W

New Technology Caravel Wheel lock Musket W

Prince Henry, the Navigator Started School for Navigation, 1419

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Columbus’ Four Voyages

Other Voyages of Exploration

Ferdinand Magellan: 1st Circumnavigation of the World: Early 16 c

Impact of European Expansion 1.Native American populations ravaged by disease. ► Taino became extinct ► 1519 – 26 million ► 1605 – 2 million million Africans enslaved 3.Spread of Christianity W

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

The “Columbian Exchange”  Squash  Avocado  Peppers  Sweet Potatoes  Turkey  Pumpkin  Tobacco  Quinine  Cocoa  Pineapple  Cassava  POTATO  Peanut  TOMATO  Vanilla  MAIZE  Syphilis  Olive  COFFEE BEAN  Banana  Onion  Turnip  Honeybee  Grape  Peach  SUGAR CANE  Oats  Citrus Fruits  Pear  Wheat  HORSE  Cattle  Sheep  Pigs  Smallpox  Flu  Typhus  Measles  Malaria  Diptheria  Whooping Cough  Rice  Barley

Spanish Treasure from the Americas! 10.5 million dollars of gold & silver between 1581 and 1600

European Empires in the Americas

4.Columbian Exchange 5.Influx of gold & silver into Europe = inflation million from Deepened European rivalries. 7.Funding voyages of exploration led to Joint-stock companies Entrepreneurs Mercantilism  Capitalism W

New Colonial Rivals

Triangular Trade

8. New Patterns of World Trade W