1. The Search for Spices
Mr. Divett

2. Exploring the Seas Trade was going on before Renaissance
Greeks
Muslim Arabs
Vikings
It was disrupted by…

3. The Black Death One third of Europe’s population died
That’s more than 25 million people

4. Spice Trade Spices were valuable
The growing population of Europe led to the need for trade
Most of the spices came from the Moluccas, present day Indonesia
Arab and Italian merchants controlled trade

5. Exploration Europeans wanted to find a more direct route to Asia
Prince Henry sponsored Portuguese exploration
Prince Henry wanted to:
Convert Africans to Christianity
Find riches
Find a more direct route to Asia

6. Exploration Henry enlisted cartographers, or map makers
Bartholomeu Dias sailed around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope in 1488
Vasco da Gama landed on Calcut, India in 1497
He lost half his crew but became enormously wealthy through trade.

7. Vasco da Gama

8. Columbus Christopher Columbus wanted to get in on the success
He was Italian
He knew the earth was spherical
He underestimated the size of the earth
Portugal refused to sponsor him

9. Columbus

10. Sponsorship Spain gave Columbus a chance
Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored him because they wanted to:
Increase their authority
Strengthen Catholicism
Bring wealth and prestige

11. Ferdinand and Isabella

12. Columbus On August 3, 1492 Columbus set sail
The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria carried them

13. Columbus On October 12 Columbus landed in the new world
He cruised around the islands of the Caribbean's
He thought he had had landed in the Indies
This is where the term “Indians” comes from
Later on it was realized that it was an unknown land

14. Dividing the World
In 1493 Pope Alexander VI set the Line of Demarcation
This gave trading and exploration rights to Spain west of the line, and Portugal east
The line was agreed upon and signed in 1494 in the Treaty of Tordesillas

15. Naming the New World Martin Waldseemuller coined the term “America”
The Caribbean islands are now called the “West Indies”

16. Magellan Ferdinand Magellan set out to find a direct way to Asia
He was Portuguese
He left on September 20, 1519 from Spain
He cruised the east coast looking for a passage to the Pacific Ocean
They braved storms but eventually found the what came to be known as the Straight of Magellan

17. Magellan

18. The Journey of Magellan

19. Carrying On Magellan’s crew wanted to turn back after their discovery
Magellan wanted to push on to the Indies
The Pacific Ocean was way larger than he anticipated
It took them four months to get there.
They arrived at the Philippines

20. Death Magellan tried to fight some Philippines and was killed
The 18 survivors of his crew returned to Spain
They were the first to circumnavigate the globe, or sail all the way around it