Transcript WHPP Unit 3 Section 4 Age of Exploration Europe and Asia

The Age of Exploration:
Europe and Asia (1415–
1796) Unit 3 Section 4
TYWL: Analyze the causes for exploration and the effects of increased
global interaction and trade between the nations in Europe, Asia,
Americas, and Africa . Analyze colonization in terms of the desire for
access to resources and markets as well as the consequences on
cultures, population, & environment.
I can: understand how the desire for wealth, resources, markets, and the
Crusades, fueled by advances in technology, leads to global exploration,
exchange of goods & ideas are contributing factors to mercantilism ,
capitalism and colonization.
Question of the Day 14
Why were the Code of Hammurabi of Babylon,
the Twelve Tables of Rome, and the Justinian
Code of the Byzantine Empire needed?
1) They created order for ancient societies.
2) They created rules of conduct for military
generals and officers.
3) They created examples of religious doctrine
for societal rituals and ceremonies.
4) They created credentials for safe passage
between empires.
Why Did Europeans Cross the Seas?
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Population recovered from the Black Death, the
demand for trade goods grew.
Desire spices.
Crusades
Renaissance
Tools of Ocean Navigation
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Astrolabe: measure the angles of the sun & stars
above the horizon.
Caravel: ship combined the square sails of European
vessels w/ the lateen (triangular) sails
Cartographers: created maps & sea charts that were
more accurate.
Portugal’s Voyages to the East
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Henry the Navigator sent ships to explore the western
coast of Africa.
In 1497, Vasco da Gama reached the spice port of
Calicut in India. Many sailors died of scurvy, a lack of
vitamin C.
In 1488, Bartholomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of
Africa, later called the Cape of Good Hope (opened sea
route to Asia)
In 1502, da Gama forced a treaty on Calicut.
Columbus’s Voyages to the West
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Backed by Spain, Christopher Columbus (Italian)
tried to reach the Indies, in Southeast Asia, by
sailing west across the Atlantic. Set out on 3
small ships, the Pinta, Nina & the Santa Maria.
Columbus believed he reached the Indies.
Lands later became known as the West Indies.
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Pope Alexander VI set a Line of
Demarcation, giving to Spain rights to any
land west of the line & to Portugal, rights
to any land east of the line.
Exploring the Americas
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Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovered a passage
through Panama to an ocean which he called
the South Sea.
Ferdinand Magellan charted a passage around
the southern tip of South America (Strait of
Magellan) & gave the Pacific (peaceful) Ocean
its name. His crew became the first people to
circumnavigate, or sail around, the world.
John Cabot discovered Newfoundland in
his unsuccessful quest to find a northwest
passage to Asia.
 Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence
River.
 Henry Hudson explored what would
become known as the Hudson River.
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