1. W
Age of
Exploration

2. Essential Question:
What fueled the Age of Exploration and how did change the balance of power in the world?

3. Earlier Explorations Islam & the Spice Trade  MoluccasW
Earlier Explorations
Islam & the Spice Trade  Moluccas
A New Player  Europe
Marco Polo, 1271
Chinese Admiral Zheng He & the Ming “Treasure Fleet”

4. Map of the Known World pre- 1492

5. Motives for European ExplorationW
Motives for European Exploration
Crusades  by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia.
Renaissance  curiosity about other lands and peoples.
Reformation  refugees & missionaries.
Gold
Technological advances.
Fame and fortune.
Gold, Glory, God

6. New Maritime Technologies
Better Maps
Hartman Astrolabe (1532)
Mariner’s Compass
Sextant

7. New Technology W
Caravel
Wheel lock Musket

8. Prince Henry, the Navigator Started School for Navigation, 1419

9. Columbus [ ]

10. Columbus’ Four Voyages

11. Other Voyages of Exploration

12. Ferdinand Magellan: 1st Circumnavigation of the World: Early 16c

13. Impact of European ExpansionW
Impact of European Expansion
Native American populations ravaged by disease.
Taino became extinct
1519 – 26 million
1605 – 2 million
11-15 million Africans enslaved
Spread of Christianity

14. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

15. The “Columbian Exchange”
Squash
Avocado
Peppers
Sweet Potatoes
Turkey
Pumpkin
Tobacco
Quinine
Cocoa
Pineapple
Cassava
POTATO
Peanut
TOMATO
Vanilla
MAIZE
Syphilis
Olive
COFFEE BEAN
Banana
Onion
Turnip
Honeybee
Grape
Peach
SUGAR CANE
Oats
Citrus Fruits
Pear
Wheat
HORSE
Cattle
Sheep
Pigs
Smallpox
Flu
Typhus
Measles
Malaria
Diptheria
Whooping Cough
Rice
Barley

16. Spanish Treasure from the Americas!
10.5 million dollars of gold & silver between 1581 and 1600

17. European Empires in the Americas

18. Influx of gold & silver into Europe = inflation. W
Columbian Exchange
Influx of gold & silver into Europe = inflation.
10.5 million from
Deepened European rivalries.
Funding voyages of exploration led to
Joint-stock companies
Entrepreneurs
Mercantilism  Capitalism

19. New Colonial Rivals

20. Triangular Trade

21. New Patterns of World Trade

22. Definitions
Ming Dynasty: Ruling Family of China from Ordered and stopped their voyages of exploration.
Eunuch: Chinese male servant whose balls were cut off to prevent them from having sex with the women of the palace.
Tribute: money and goods paid to a ruler.
Emissary: representative of another country
Colonialism: creating land owned and controlled by your country.