Transcript 3.1 notes

Chapter 3.1
Age of Exploration
Gold, God, & Glory
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Desire for $$ encourage European explorers
Simple economics
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High demand and low supply = high prices
Muslims control trade route from west to east
Western Europeans looking for cheaper, faster
way to get to Asia
Spread of Christianity also motivates explorers
Gold, God, & Glory
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Technological advances allow better shipping:
Caravel = sturdier ship
Triangular sails allow ships to sail against the
wind
Astrolabe helps determine location at sea
Magnetic compass accurately gives direction
Groups
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Group 1: Dante, Colleen, Elin, Joe, Kevin,
Andrea, Grace, Margarita, Matt
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Group 2: Claire, Marissa, Morgan, Michael,
Mary, Savannah, Peter, Ashley, James W
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Group 3: Patton, Max, Caroline, Gianna,
Nicole, Jimmy, Timmy, Austin, Jasmine
Portugal
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Prince Henry begins school of navigation
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Classes on navigation, cartography, shipbuilding,
science of the sea
Bartolomeu Dias first to sail around southern tip
of Africa
Vasco da Gama first to explore east African
coast and then sail to India
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Christopher Columbus sails west to Americas –
lands in Caribbean
People thought he reached India (including the
Portuguese)
WHAT’S THE IMPACT OF THIS?
 Portugal had already sailed to India and is worried
Spain may take over their land
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Tensions between Spain and Portugal increase
Pope Alexander VI offers solution
Draw a dividing line – called “Line of Demarcation”
 East of the line is for Portugal
 West of the line is for Spain
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WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF THIS?
Spain gains land in all the Americas and has
larger historical impact
Line of Demarcation
European Exploration
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Portugal gains early successes from Treaty of
Tordesillas
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Breaks Muslim-Italian hold on trade in Asia
Dutch very successful traders
Dutch East India Trading Company largest and
most powerful company in the world (late
1500s)
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Could mint money, sign treaties, raise armies
European Exploration
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Dutch control East Indies (Indonesia) & South
Africa
Amsterdam becomes leading business city in
Europe
Britain controls India
European influence remains on coast – not
inland