1. Chapter 16: Exploration and Expansion 1400-1800
Section 3: Voyages of Portugal and Spain

3. PORTUGAL

4. Responsible for Portugal’s interest in exploration
Prince Henry
The Navigator
Responsible for Portugal’s interest in exploration

5. Found new route to the Indian Ocean
Bartolomeu Dias
Found new route to the Indian Ocean
Around Cape of Good Hope

6. Sailed eastward across the Indian Ocean Landed in India
VASCO da GAMA
Sailed eastward across the Indian Ocean
Landed in India
Brought many valuable goods to Portugal

7. Dias and da Gama’s Contribution
Now an overseas trade route from Europe to India and the East Indies

8. Spain

9. Christopher Columbus

10. October 12, 1492 landed in Americas
Today known as Bahamas
He landed in “West Indies” because be believed he landed in Asia

11. Massive exchange between New World and Old World (Europe)
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
Massive exchange between New World and Old World (Europe)
Corn & potatoes to Europe
Horses to Native Americans
Diseases to Americas

13. Argued that new lands to the west were not part of Asia
Amerigo Vespucci
Argued that new lands to the west were not part of Asia

14. Found a route to the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
Found a route to the Pacific Ocean