Transcript The First Global Age: Europe and Asia

The First Global Age: Europe
and Asia
The Search For Spices
 Italians
and Muslim
merchants were rich
from the spice trade.
Pepper sold for as much
a 125.00 an ounce.
 Other European nations
wanted in on the %1000
profits.
 The Portuguese were the
first to find a route East.
Improved Technology
 The
ideas of the Renaissance and the
printed word helped improve sailing.
 Cartographers made better maps,
accurate navigation, compass,
astrolabe, sextant
 The design of the ships improved.
Better sails, caravels, moved the
rudder.
 More armaments, better cannon.
Combining the Technology of
Europe with the Knowledge of Asia
Portuguese Pioneers
 Prince
Henry the Navigator of Portugal
wants to conquer Africa and find
Prester John.
 Henry wanted to explore and map
Africa. Bartholomeu Dias rounded the
Cape of Good Hope in 1488.
 Vasco Da Gama journeyed to India in
1497. Many of the crew died of scurvy
lack of vitamin C. Da Gama made a
3000% profit.
Portuguese Explorers
Spain enters the race
 Christopher
Columbus was turned
down by the Portuguese.
 Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
wanted the profit from the spice trade
and to spread Christianity.
 In 1492 Columbus with his ships the
Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria
landed in the Bahamas.
 Columbus made 4 trips and died
thinking he was in Asia.
The Voyage of Columbus
 In
The Pope Draws a Line
1494 Pope Alexander VI created an
imaginary line dividing the world
between Spain and Portugal. This was
the Treaty of Tordesillas.
 A mapmaker read an account of the
New World by Amerigo Vespucci and
he named the area America on his map.
 Vasco Nunez de Balboa went overland
to the Isthmus of Panama and found
the Pacific. He called it the South Sea.
The Line of Demarcation
The Quest for El Paso
 Magellan
searching for a quick route to
the east going west circumnavigates the
globe. (A lot farther than he thought)
 Magellan died in the Philppine Islands
so his crew actually sailed around the
world.
 John Cabot of England, Jacques
Cartier of France, and Henry Hudson
for the Dutch all searched in vain for
the Northwest passage.
The Search for El Paso
 1.
Quiz on Notes
Who was the first explorer to sail around
the Cape of Good Hope?
 2. Who was the Portuguese noble who
started a school for sailors?
 3. List three innovations or inventions that
allowed exploration.
 4. Who was the first European explorer to
reach India by sea?
 5. What Italian explorer was financed by
the King and Queen of Spain?
 6.
Quiz on Notes
Who was the explorer who sailed for the
Dutch and founded New Amsterdam?
 7. Who was the French explorer who sailed
down the Saint Lawrence and founded the
city of Quebec?
 8. Who was the first explorer ( his crew)
captain to circumnavigate the globe?
 9. Who was the first explorer, sent by the
English, to land in Newfoundland?
 10. What agreement divided the world
between the Portuguese and the Spanish?