Transcript Life in the Eastern Hemisphere

Life in the Eastern Hemisphere
How did exploration and trade
lead the West and the east
to learn about one another?
How did exploration and trade
lead the West and the east
to learn about one another?
How did exploration and trade
lead the West and the east
to learn about one another?
How did exploration and trade
lead the West and the east
to learn about one another?
• The need for trade led the people of Asia and
Europe to travel and build stronger ties to
people of other continents.
Marco Polo and his family traveled to
China for valuable trade goods.
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Marco
Polo
Travelled to
China
Searching for Spices, Silk,
and Tea
This is the route Polo took from Venice into China.
Why would people want to take on the risks and costs of
such long journeys?
Read pages 102-103
in your textbook.
While you read, list
the kinds of trade
items that passed
between Europe
and Asia.
Marco Polo brought the teas, spices, and silks of
China back to Venice.
How did the Venetian people react when they
saw these things for the very first time?
The desire for trade led to the need for
travel.
Besides goods, what else was shared
among the people from the East and the
people from the West?
China developed a strong naval fleet and set out to
explore the world and develop trade with other
countries.
The Chinese built a navy of
more than 300 ships. It
was the largest fleet ever
assembled at the time.
The Chinese also invented
the magnetic compass
which made it possible for
sailors to determine their
direction far out at sea.
How would this change
travel for all people?
Explorers discovered African
kingdoms full of riches.
• Ghana, Kingdom of Gold – Arab traders
brought salt and the religion of Islam to Ghana
to trade for gold.
• Mali traded gold, animal hides, and kola nuts
for European goods such as cloth and horses.
How did trade affect these
three empires?
Make a chart with these three headings:
Africa’s Trading Empires
Goods Traded
Ideas Exchanged
Use the headings and the information in
lesson 2 of your textbook to complete
the chart.
Explorers discovered African
kingdoms full of riches.
• Mali reached its peak as a trading empire
under ruler Mansa Musa.
• Mansa Musa was a Muslim who went on a
religious journey to Mecca, a holy city. The
king’s journey strengthened trade with other
countries.
• After Mansa Musa’s rule, another trading
kingdom, Songhai grew. It would be bigger
than Ghana and Mali.
European Explorers
The Vikings
Eric the Red was a violent man.
The Vikings kicked him out of his
homeland. Eric needed a place to live so
he began a journey of exploration and
settlement that would extend thousands
of miles.
Eric the Red is banished from his
homeland.
Eric the Red travels looking for a
new home.
Eric meets new people and
discovers new goods, religions,
languages, customs.
The Viking ways are spread to
different lands.
The Renaissance
• The Renaissance began new interest in the
arts and sciences and a desire to learn
more about the world.
– Ancient European cultures
• Study of religion, music, customs, traditions
– Language
• Printed language
• Reading leads to the spread of new ideas
– Engineering increased travel
• Ship design and building
• Magnetic compass
The Portuguese Explore
the African Coast
Portugal’s Prince Henry wanted
the riches of China, too. He
sent explorers to map the
African shore and find a new
sea route to Asia.
His goal was to find a route to the rich spice trade of
the Indies and to explore the west coast of Africa. The
ships that sailed the Mediterranean were too slow and
too heavy to make these voyages. Under his direction, a
new and lighter ship was developed, the caravel, which
would allow sea captains to sail further and faster.
A Sea Route to India
Bartolomeu Dias
was a Portuguese
explorer from
Henry’s school of
navigation. He
travelled south
from Portugal
along the coastline
of Africa. He
made it as far as
the tip of Africa
called, the Cape of
Good Hope.
A Sea Route to India
• Vasco De Gama was the first to sail around the
tip of Africa, east across the Indian Ocean and
reach India.
Summarize the Chapter
• About 700 – The kingdom of Ghana thrived in
West Africa
• 1000- Vikings under Leif Ericsson reached North
America, but soon abandoned their settlement
• 1274 Traveling from Venice, Marco Polo reached
China
• 1324 – Mansa Musa, king of Mali, brought
thousands of people on a pilgrimage to Mecca
Summarize the Chapter
• About 1350 The Renaissance, a rebirth of
learning, began in Europe
• 1405 Chinese fleets began to explore the seas
under Zheng He.
• 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gamma
established a sea route to India around the
southern tip of Africa
• Early 1500’s - The kingdom of Songhai reached
its peak