Transcript Exploration

Class Notes
Chapter 10
Europe Explores
The World
MAIN IDEAS
In search of Gold,
Glory and God Quest
for knowledge,
commercial and
religious exploration
I. Europe Gets Ready to Explore
1. In the 1400s, trade with Asia, new technology,
and the rise of strong kingdoms led to
European exploration.
2. New technology: Astrolabe, compass, ships
called caravels, better cartography
3. Portugal, Spain, France, and England funded
voyages and soon controlled the Americas, and
parts of Africa, India and Asia.
*What did the European kingdoms want to achieve? What new technologies
enabled exploration to take place? What advantages did these countries
have?
II. Exploring the World
The Big Achievements
1. Henry the “Navigator” set up a research center
in Portugal with sailors, cartographers, and
shipbuilders.
2. Vasco da Gama rounded Africa reaching India.
3. Columbus claimed Caribbean islands for Spain.
4. Magellan entered the Pacific Ocean through
the Strait of Magellan. His men became the
first to circumnavigate the globe.
III. Trade and Empire and the
Columbian Exchange
1. Spain and Portugal controlled colonies in North America,
Mexico, and South America. After the English defeated
the Spanish Armada, England, France, and the
Netherlands established colonies too.
2. Mercantilism: power comes from gold and silver by
exporting more goods than importing. Colonies
traded and produced goods.
3. Joint stock-companies (groups of businesspeople) and
the “cottage-industry” (peasants making goods cheaply)
led to capitalism: individuals and private companies can
own property and buy and sell goods.
4. The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of goods,
technology, people, ideas and diseases between the
Europe and other parts of the world.
IV: The Columbian Exchange