1. Exploration of the New World
Motives for Exploration
Explain the political, economic, and technological factors that led to the exploration of the New World by Spain, Portugal, and England, including the competition between nation-states, the expansion of international trade, and the technological advances in shipbuilding and navigation.

2. Economic Factors
Expansion of international trade. [both a cause and a result of Age of Exploration]
Merchants brought spices from the Far East to Europe to trade for a profit.
Other Europeans wanted more goods from the East without the added expense charged by these middle men.

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Economic Factors
Because of the leadership of Prince Henry and their geographic location on the Atlantic Ocean, Portugal became the first to seek a water route to Asia.
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Economic Factors
Economic competition with Portugal influenced Spain to sponsor Columbus and others to explore unmapped lands in the New World that were found by various explorers.
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5. Competition between nation-states
Political Factors
Competition between nation-states
England and other countries became interested in the New World, especially as the Spanish found gold and silver that made them the most powerful nation in Europe.

6. Competition between nation-states
Political Factors
Competition between nation-states
The English monarchs began to send explorers to the New World and in the next few centuries they would become the dominant country in the settlement of North America.

7. Technological Factors
Helped explorers
Advancements in shipbuilding
The construction of the caravel-a smaller, faster ship with triangular sails that could sail into the wind

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Notice the shape and size…

9. Technological Factors
Helped explorers
Improvements in navigational skills
Allowed sailors to venture further out to sea
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10. Astrolabe-measures height of sun above the horizon
Compass-helped with direction
Reading celestial stars to plot location and course

11. Cartography What is cartography? Map making skills
Cartography helped them share their knowledge with others and was taught at the Portuguese School of Navigation.
Not the same as maps we have today