Transcript the-search-for

The Search for Spices
Exploration
• European population growing
–Demand for traded goods
–Spices
•Preserve food
•Add flavor to meat
•Make medicine and perfume
The Search for Spices
• Moluccas
–Chief source of spices
–Chain of islands in present day
Indonesia
• Arabs and Italians controlled most of
the trade going to Europe
• Europeans wanted direct route to
Asia
The Search for Spices
• Portugal
• Prince Henry
–Led the way for sponsoring
exploration in Portugal
–Expanded into Muslim North Africa
–Tried to convert to Christianity
–Find riches that Muslim traders had
Portugal
• Wanted to find easier way to Asia
–Sent ships south to explore the
Western coast of Africa
•1488- Dias
•Rounded Southern tip of Africa
•Cape of Good Hope
Portugal
• Vasco Da Gama
–Went farther than Cape of Good
Hope
•Calicut, India
•Highly profitable
–Kept going back for more spices
–Confirmed Portugal as a world
power
Christopher Columbus
• Portugal’s success led to others
wanting to explore
• Christopher Columbus
–Wanted to reach East Indies by
sailing West on Atlantic
–Knew the world was round
–Underestimated Earth’s size
Christopher Columbus
• Portugal refused to sponsor him
• Persuaded Spain to finance voyage
• Ferdinand and Isabella
• Hoped voyage would bring wealth
and prestige
Christopher Columbus
• Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
• Several weeks with no land
• Landed on Caribbean
–Called natives Indians
•Thought he was in Indies
• Three more voyages
–Still thought he had reached East
Asia
New World
• Eventually people figured out that
Columbus had found a route to new
continents
– Spain asked pope for the rights to the
new world
New World
• Line of Demarcation
• Divided non-European land into two
zones
–Spain controlled West of the line
–Portugal controlled East of the line
Search Continues
• Still looking for direct route to Asia
• Ferdinand Magellan
– Wanted to find Ocean
– Went to South America
– Straits of Magellan
– Pacific Ocean
Magellan
• Crew wanted to return the way they
had come
• Magellan wanted to keep going to
east Indies
– Underestimated size of the Pacific
– Three years later they returned to Spain
– Only 18 crew members survive
– First to circumnavigate globe