Europe exploration!
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European Exploration!
Factors that Encouraged European Exploration
• Wealth through trade – bypass Muslim and Italian trader (too expensive)
• Help spread Christianity
• Advances in Technology– Caravel – allowed ship to travel against the
wind– Astrolab and Sextant – better navigation
New Route to the East
• Portuguese establish trading posts along the western coast of Africa
• Desire spices, precious metals and tropical commodities
• Bart. Dias first to make it around the Cape of Good hope
New Route to the East
• Portuguese sailor Vasco De Gama first to make it around Africa to India.
• Portuguese establish multiple trading posts and break Italian and Muslim monopolies.
Competition with Spain
• Spain unifies as a country after the reconquista.
• Jealous of Portuguese economic success: desire trade route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
• Italian sailor Columbus convinces Spanish monarchy that he could open a westward route to Asia.
• Runs into Caribbean Is. – Thinks its India – Calls inhabitants “Indians.”
Tension
• Spanish success in the Western Hemisphere creates tension between Spain and Portuguese.
• Pope makes them sign the Treaty of Tordesillas – giving Spain most of modern day Brazil.