1. European Explore the East

2. Factors Spur Exploration
Renaissance curiosity about world
GOLD: Desire for new sources of wealth & trade
GLORY: fame & for King & Country
GOD: Missionary impetus to spread Christianity

4. New Tools of Exploration

5. Portugal Leads the Way
Prince Henry “the Navigator” founds school of exploration in 1419
Sailors surveyed coast of Africa & later India

6. Reached tip of South Africa in 1488
Bartolomeu Diaz
Reached tip of South Africa in 1488

7. 1st European to sail a direct route to India in 1498
Vasco da Gama
1st European to sail a direct route to India in 1498

8. Spanish Claims
1492: Christopher Columbus discovers the Caribbean thinking it was Asia

9. Columbus’ Journeys

10. Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
To keep peace between 2 Catholic nations, the Pope divided the world in ½ based on Spanish & Portuguese claims
Showed European’s disregard for indigenous peoples

11. Treaty of Tordesillas 1494

12. Europeans Carve up the East Indies
Following Portugal; other nations seized ports in Africa & Asia
Britain & France enter India
Spain took over Philippines in 1521
Dutch took over Cape Town & Indonesia

13. European colonies in 1700

14. Dutch East India Company
1st corporation in history, controlled Indonesia
Est. in 1602 after the Dutch freed themselves from Spain
Private company owned by Dutch investors