1. The Age of Exploration
World History

2. Reasons for European Exploration
Europeans had enjoyed goods imported from China and India since the Crusades
Europe was cut off from trade by the fall of Constantinople to the Turks
Europeans decided to find a way to get to India and China directly

3. Reasons for European Exploration
Technology:
Compass from China
Triangular sales from the Arabs
Reasons for European Exploration

4. Reasons for European Exploration
Human Nature – The desire for:
Gold – get rich
God – spread Christianity
Glory – get famous
Reasons for European Exploration

5. Portugal The first country to pay for exploration
Prince Henry built a school for explorers
Vasco De Gama found a route around Africa to India

6. Spain Ferdinand and Isabella pay for Columbus’s voyage
Columbus sails west attempting to reach India
Columbus finds the “New World” instead
Spain

7. Columbian Exchange
After Columbus’s voyage an important trading of ideas and goods between the New and Old Worlds began

9. Other Explorers
Magellan (Portugal) – 1st to circumnavigate
Northwest Passage – tried to sail north of America to get to India
Cabot (Englad) – North American east coast
Cartier, Chaplain, and de la Salle (France) – Canada, Great Lakes, and the Mississippi
Hudson (Dutch) – Hudson bay