1. Chapter 14 The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe, Africa, and Asia
Section 1
The Search for spices

2. Motivations for Exploring the Seas
1400’s marked new period of exploration
Europe > growth in population > need increase in trade
Valued item > spices?(why) > source > Moluccas
New curiosity > Renaissance > fuels trade > Europe

3. Portugal Sails East Portugal > sponsored by Prince Henry
looked to Africa > source of riches
Hoped to find an easier way to Asia > hired cartographers
Bartholomeu Dias > sails around Africa

4. Seeking India Vasco da Gama follows Dias’s footsteps but goes further
Take four ships around Africa to India
Acquires spices that he sells for a large profit
Effects
Seized key ports around Indian Ocean > Trading empire
Portugal becomes a world power

5. Columbus Sails West Columbus > Italian navigator
Earth is round > sail west > hit eastern Asia > great idea but he underestimated the earth’s size
Sponsored by Ferdinand & Isabella > bring prestige & wealth to Spain
Name his three ships?
Reaches Caribbean islands > hero

6. Dividing the Globe in Half
Pope set a Line of Demarcation > dividing the non-European world into two zones
Both sides agreed > Treaty of Tordesillas

7. Naming the Western Hemisphere
“Americas” > name for both continents in the Western Hem.
Caribbean Islands > called West Indies

8. The Search for a Direct Route Continues
Ferdinand Magellan > sailed southwest around the southern tip of South America > made it to the Philippines > he dies here
What is left of the crew sails to Spain
First people to circumnavigate the globe