1. The Age of Exploration Good times unless you are a native

2. Motives for European Exploration 1.Crusades  by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. money 2.Renaissance  curiosity about other lands and peoples. Mo money 3.Reformation  refugees & missionaries. God 4.Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue. Mo Mo Money 5.Technological advances. Cool weapons 6.Fame and fortune. Glory= 3GS

4. New Maritime Technologies Hartman Astrolabe (1532) Better Maps [Portulan] Sextant Mariner’s Compass

6. New Weapons Technology

9. Vikings about 1000 AD ► Eric the Red and Leif Ericson ► Greenland and Newfoundland

14. Marco Polo ► 1275 ► Kublai Khan

18. Zheng He ► Ming Dynasty ► 1405 ► Muslim ► Africa and Middle East ► 1433

20. Zheng He’s Voyages

24. Prince Henry ( 1394-1460) ► Portugal ► School of Navigation ► African cities/bases ► Gold and God

25. Museum of Navigation in Lisbon

28. Bartholomew Dias ► 1488 ► Cape of Good Hope

31. Christofo Colon [1451- 1506]

32. Columbus ► Genoa ► Trade Routes

37. The last discovery ► Oct 12, 1492 ► Rodrigo ► San Salvador ► The Arawak “Indians” ► Cuba, Hispaniola ► Granted Admiral of the Seas and 10%

39. Columbus’ Four Voyages

44. ► 3 more voyages- Caribbean and Venezuela ► 1502 Charged with maladministration ► Died in 1506

46. Conflict between Spain and Portugal ► 1493 and 94 Treaty of Tordesillas

48. The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 & The Pope’s Line of Demarcation

49. Other explorers ► Vasco da Gama ► Pedro Alvares Cabral ► John Cabot ► Jacques Cartier ► Amerigo Vespucci