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Exploration and Expansion 1400-1700 The Voyages of Discovery • Age of ExplorationA spirit of discovery and innovation that led Europeans to set sail to discover new routes or lands. Why • Wealth • Luxury Goods like spices , silk, perfume, and jade from China and India • Routes- For Trade • Glory- Honor • Faith • Curiosity- M. Polo Inventions • Compass • Astrolabe- Sun and stars and horizon (Muslims) • Deep Draft Shipsrode lower in water • Caravel- Light fast sailing ship (Had rudder rather than ores) had lateen sails Iberian Peninsula • Henry the Navigator- Patron and supporter of those who wished to explore. • Henry had small courts (Portugal) • They studied Africa and guess what they found? http://player.discoveryeducatio n.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId= 463232A3-B21B-4A31-9CED13F5E9592E07&blnFromSear ch=1&productcode=US In Search of a Route • He wanted to find a water route around Africa to India. • Henry Died, but the Portuguese explores did not abandon their attempts to find the route. • 1488- Bartolomeu Dias became the 1st European to attempt to sail around the southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) • Storms made them turn back. Vasco de Gama • Set out to India in 1497. • He found that the Muslims were active in Indian Trade • Pedro Cabral followed after Gama and founded Brazil. • In India, the Portuguese created trading centers. The Spanish • Christopher Columbus was sponsored b Ferdinand and Isabella • He believed that he could sail west around the world from Spain to reach China. • He didn’t know where the Americas lay across the Atlantic • Thought the Caribbean were the Indies • He returned with parrots, jewels, gold, and plants. • Brought NA and baptized them. • Columbus never reached Asia even after three more voyages. • 1502- Amerigo Vespucci sailed along South America and called Columbus’s discovery “A new Land” • 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa led an expedition across the Isthmus of Panama.1st European to see the Pacific. • http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index .cfm?guidAssetId=7063AE61-60FB-4C81B6440C3421399AF3&blnFromSearch=1&produ ctcode=US • Man and MYTH • Ferdinand Magellan- Born in Portugal, but sailed for Spain. • His five ships reached the Philippines (Killed by Natives) • In early September 8, 1522 18 survivors of the original fleet arrived in Spain. They had circumnavigated the world. The English • John Cabot- sailed from England to the Atlantic coast (Canada) (His ships disappeared) • Sir Francis Drake- He rounded the tip of South America and explored its west coast. Second man to circumnavigate the globe. • Henry Hudsonhttp://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm? guidAssetId=9ACEF62D-24D1-4895-90541B9BA89720E2&blnFromSearch=1&productcod e=US