Transcript Chapter 2: Section 2 Early Exploration

Chapter 2: Section 2 Early Exploration
Essential Question: Why did Spain and Portugal want to find a sea route to
Asia?
Vocabulary words:
1. saga
2. strait
3. line of demarcation
4. circumnavigate
Seeking New Trade Routes
Main idea: Portugal took the lead in finding a sea route to India
Portugal- first European power to explore the boundaries of the known
world
Early Portuguese Voyages
Prince Henry of Portugal
Henry the Navigator
Began “school of navigation”
astronomers, geographers, cartographers, mathematicians
Updated charts and maps as new information was learned
Planned voyages but did not take any
Early Portuguese Voyages
Gold Coast
Portuguese ships moved south along the west coast of Africa to trade gold
and ivory
Became known as Gold Coast
Mid-1400s, Portuguese began buying slaves there too
King John II urged Portuguese sea captains to move further along the
African coast in search of a direct route to India and China for trade
Bartholomeu Dias
Sailed around the southernmost point of Africa
Called it the “Cape of Storms”
King John renamed it the Cape of Good Hope
King John hoped the passage around Africa would lead to a new route to India
Vasco da Gama
July 1497Sailed from Portugal with four ships making a huge semicircular sweep
through the Atlantic Ocean to get around the Cape of Good Hope safely
At sea for 96 days
Reached India at the port of Calicut in May 1498
Finally completing the eastern sea route to Asia
Portuguese Trading Empire
Pedro Alvares Cabral in charge of a fleet of 13 ships sailing from Lisbon to
Asia
Reached Brazil and claimed some of the land, giving Portugal a stake in the
Americas
Continued to India and established first permanent forts there for Portugal
Portuguese fleets made annual voyages to India after that
Lisbon became trading center of Europe
Portuguese Trading Empire
Pedro Alvares Cabral in charge of a fleet of 13 ships sailing from Lisbon to
Asia
Reached Brazil and claimed some of the land, giving Portugal a stake in the
Americas
Continued to India and established first permanent forts there for Portugal
Portuguese fleets made annual voyages to India after that
Lisbon became trading center of Europe