1. The Age of Exploration

2. The Back-story Reasons for exploration… Conversion… Gov’t interest…
Curiosity…
Spices…
Material profit…
Trade routes…

3. The Back - story Advances that aided in exploration….
Magnetic compass…
Telescope…
Map-making…
Shipbuilding…
Stern-mounted rudders…
Mentality…

4. The Explorers Portugal east to the Indies…
Prince Henry and his Captains…
Dias…
Da Gama…
Cabral…
Set up 1st Commercial-Colonial Empire…de Albuquerque…

5. The Explorers Spain west to the Indies… Columbus…1492-1504
The Conquistadors… …
The Empire…

6. Others… England… France… Dutch… Spain… Cabots (Father & Son)… Drake…
Hudson…
Raleigh…
Smith…
France…
Cartier…
Cadillac…
Champlain…
De La Salle…
Verrazzano
Dutch…
Stuyvesant…
Spain…
Vespucci…

7. The Results of Exploration – The Commercial Revolution
Changes in production…
driven by demand…
Changes in funding…
driven by “capitalism”…
Changes in role of government in economy…
driven by “nationalism”…
Changes in social structures…
which would last until the 1800s…
Deepening of East / West European divide…
step forward vs. step back…