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The Age of Exploration
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Essential Questions
• What kinds of new knowledge and technical accomplishments made it possible for Europeans to undertake great journeys of oceanic exploration in the 1400s?
• How and why did Europeans benefit in unique ways in their overseas explorations from the accomplishments of other civilizations?
• What motives did Europeans have for undertaking what were expensive and enormously risky overseas ventures?
• Why was it that Portugal and Spain, of all the European nations, led the way in the early phases of the Age of Exploration?
• Why were the Dutch, English, and French able to take the lead later in overseas imperial expansion?
• Why was the “Columbian Exchange” such a turning point in so many ways in world history, and why was it so much more beneficial for the Eastern Hemisphere than for the Western Hemisphere?
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The Historical Setting for Exploration
• Europe wanted trade• World divided into
independent spheres• Limited previous
contact with the Americas had occurred
• Vikings
Vikings
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Renaissance Ideas That Influenced Exploration
• Most educated men believed that the world was round
• There were certainly stories of other lands, but they were not focused on the Western Hemisphere
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Economic Developments
• Trade routes expanded• Europeans developed a
taste for Asian goods• The development
of banking
The Royal Exchange, London
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New Technology: Ships
• Caravels• Ship technology• Armaments
Caravel
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New Technology: Navigation
• Astrolabe• Compass• Practical knowledge of
winds and currents
Astrolabe
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Cartography: Early and Medieval Maps
Ptolemaic map
Jerusalem mapsMappa Mundi
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Late Medieval and Renaissance Cartography
Portolan map Fra Mauro’s map
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Cartography and Projection
• Hipparchus and Ptolemy
• Mercator