Transcript The Search for Spices PPT - History With Mr. Wallace

The Beginnings of Our Global Age:
Europe, Africa, and Asia
Section 1: The Search for Spices
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Motivations for Exploring the Seas
Europeans outside Italy wanted direct access to Asia’s goods, such as valuable spices from the
Moluccas.
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Portugal Sails East
Portugal’s Prince Henry set up a community of experts to plan for the long voyage to Asia. In
1488, Bartholomeu Dias rounded Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. Vasco da Gama later reached
India, and soon the Portuguese had ports around the Indian Ocean.
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Columbus Sails West
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain financed Christopher Columbus’s voyage across the Atlantic in
hopes of finding an easier route to Asia. He set off in 1492 and reached the Caribbean islands,
which he thought were the Indies. In 1493, the pope divided the Americas between Spain and
Portugal with his Line of Demarcation.
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The Search for a Direct Route Continues
After many failed attempts by expeditions of the various European powers, Portuguese nobleman
Ferdinand Magellan finally found a way to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic. The passage
became known as the Strait of Magellan. His crew members were the first to circumnavigate the
world.
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