1. The Beginnings of Our Global Age

2. Portugal
Prince Henry
Find direct route to Asia
Spread Christianity
Find valuable riches
Funded training, cartographers, and ship building
Est. Portugal out as a leader

3. Portugal Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope Da Gama
Found direct route to Asia
Forcefully opened up Calicut, India
Gains wealth from spices

4. Portugal Gains strength in Africa Established ports for ships
Began extensive trade
Stayed along coast
Mombassa and Malindi on East African coast

5. Portugal By the 1600s Portugal’s power declined
Lost most power they had in global areas

6. Spain Desired to catch up to Portugal
Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored voyages
Bring back greatness
Inquisition hurt Spain
Line of Demarcation
Showed Spain and Portugal as dominant explorers
Treaty of Tordesillas
W = Spain
E = Portugal

7. Spain Christopher Columbus Desired to reach Asia by sailing west
Reached the Caribbean islands
West Indies
Coined the term “Indians”

8. Spain Balboa Reached Central America
Aided by Natives he traveled across land
Found the “South Sea”
Actually the Pacific Ocean

9. Spain Magellan Reached southern tip of S. America
Found waterway to the “South Sea”
Strait of Magellan to Pacific Ocean
Reached Philippines
Killed by natives
Crew circumnavigated the globe!

10. Spain Seizes the Philippines Locked a presence in Asia
Independent - non united islands
Easy to take over
Locked a presence in Asia
Key trade ports for Spain

11. Northwest Passage

12. Northeast Passage

13. The Netherlands Early 1500s newly independent
Late 1500s European leader in commerce
Dutch East India Company
Sovereign powers with exploration
Controlled a monopoly in the Spice Islands
Cape Town
Key location for trade
Refreshing Station

14. The Netherlands Henry Hudson Hudson Bay Hudson River New York
“Even old New York was once New….”

15. England Queen Elizabeth India Support in education and exploration
Fought against French
Successful at dominating India
British military presence and sepoys
Mughal Empire forced to pay taxes to England

16. England
John Cabot
Explored coast
Newfoundland

17. France Champlain Cartier Marquette Large control of fur trade
Established Quebec
Cartier
St. Lawrence River
Marquette
Navigated Northern Mississippi River
Large control of fur trade

18. Asia China Limited traders Heavily watched & forced to leave each year
Felt they had reached good heights without outside influences - why start now?
Cultural conflicts
Language barriers
Customary differences

19. Asia Korea Suffered attacks from Japan Manchus (China) invade
cities destroyed & economic hardships
Manchus (China) invade
Korea established as a tributary state
Korea isolated itself for nearly 250 years

20. Asia Japan Traded with Europeans Feudalism in Japan
Daimyo looking for power = guns
Christianity begins to take hold
Tokugawa alarmed
Threatened by Spanish takeover of Phil.
Turned to isolation for nearly 200 years