1. The Search for Spices

2. Europeans Take to the Seas
Traded with Asia for 100s of years
Black Death disrupted Asian Trade routes
Motivation: spices, silks, cottons
Improved technology helped this movement

3. Portugese Pioneers
Prince Henry the Navigator set up a navigation school
Helped make settlements in Africa
Bartholomew Dias rounded the tip of Africa
Vasco Da Gama led 4 ships around the Cape of Good Hope

4. Spain Enters the Race Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492
Financed by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
Was an Italian
Tried to reach India by sailing West
Took 3 ships: Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria
Thought he reached India; called people he met Indians

7. Spain Enters the Race Columbus actually landed in the Bahamas
Met the Tainos people
Later went to the island of Hispaniola where he met the Arawak peoples
He was the first European to discover America
Called it the “New World”

9. Spain Enters the Race Naming the New World
Amerigo Vespucci wrote about the New world
It was named America after him
Magellan named the Pacific
Balboa found the Pacific
Magellan sails to the Philippines