a search for spices
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AGE OF EXPLORATION. A SEARCH FOR SPICES. 1400 - 1800. REASONS FOR EUROPEAN EXPLORATION. European demand for gold, spices, natural resources Support for diffusion (spread) of Christianity Political & economic competition between European empires. WHY ARE SPICES IMPORTANT?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
A SEARCH FOR SPICES
AGE OF EXPLORATION
1400 - 1800
Hook Video
REASONS FOR EUROPEAN EXPLORATION
European demand for gold, spices, natural resources
Support for diffusion (spread) of Christianity
Political & economic competition between European empires
WHY ARE SPICES IMPORTANT? Europeans want spices
preserve & improve food, make medicine, cosmetics
& perfumes
“SPICE ISLANDS” – East Indies (present
day Indonesia, Malaysia &
New Guinea), & India
WHERE DO THE SPICES GO?Video
Muslims/Arabs trade spices, with Italians, then…
Italian traders get spices & travel west across Mediterranean to sell for 40x original price!
Portugal & Spain seek new route to Asia no more Muslim middlemen (Ottomans)
REMEMBER: 3 G’s and a TMAIN REASONS FOR
EXPLORATION GOLD: some seek riches/power
GLORY: Some want to learn about new people/ideas & take credit
GOD: some want to spread Christianity
TECHNOLOGY: made voyages possible
TECHNOLOGY: MERCATOR PROJECTION
Cartographers make maps
New kind of map that showed true direction (latitude/longitude)
TECHNOLOGY: ASTROLABE Used to determine
latitude at sea
Originally used by Ancient Greeks, then improved by Muslims
Brass circle w/ adjustable rings sights stars for direction
TECHNOLOGY: CARAVEL larger, faster, & more
maneuverable
Multiple masts, triangular sails & new kind of rudder enabled sailors to steer into the wind
Cannons on side
Video
TECHNOLOGY: COMPASS
Magnetic
First developed by Chinese & Europeans improved it for sailing
WHO STARTS SAILING FIRST? PORTUGAL leads the way Prince Henry (“the Navigator”)
builds school for navigators, cartographers & explorers
sponsored voyages along west coast of Africa searching for route to Asia for spices & gold from Africa
Video (stop at 4 min)
BARTOLOMEU DIAS rounded southern tip of
Africa Cape of Good Hope
(they were hopeful they would find a route to Asia; good “hope” they
were still alive)
Got beaten up by a storm & had to go back
VASCO DA GAMA
1497 - sails around Cape of Good Hope all the way to Calicut, India
buys spices (like pepper & cinnamon) & sells them at 4,000X the original price!
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Spain joins the race! Hires Columbus
(Italian) to sail west hoping to hit EAST INDIES
Instead reached WEST INDIES (Bahamas off Florida)
But thought he reached Asia tensions growing between Spain & Portugal
MORE ON COLUMBUS Made several more
voyages through Caribbean islands
Wrote King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella (Spain) that native people, the Tainos, were easy to convert & enslave
Video
Discovery of America Videos
The Mutiny video:http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus/videos/columbus-faces-down-the-mutinous-crew?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
In a nutshell video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7HxCsPho34&index=8&list=PLA4RH8KVy9m7QvjHxif8bDzQ8QtG01neG
The Real Story of Columbus videohttp://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus/videos/christopher-columbus-man-and-myth
FERDINAND MAGELLAN In search of westward route to “Spice Islands”
1519 – reaches water passage at southern tip of South America (Strait of Magellan)
Connects to Pacific Ocean & his crew CIRCUMNAVIGATES the globe
He dies in Philippines
Out of 237 men, only 18 make it home
JACQUES CARTIER 1534 French explorer
Reached a gulf off east coast of Canada
Led to a river he named “St. Lawrence” & he followed it inland to Mont Royal (Montreal)
Helped to start New France
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 1580’s English captain
Raided Spanish ships & colonies
Eventually leads British navy to victory over
Spanish Armada in 1588
NATIONALISM The Dutch
(Netherlands) create a bustling trading empire throughout Indian ocean
Pride in your country
Driving force behind competition for exploration
Colonies set up in newly conquered lands to establish control (harsh)
All leads to decimation of indigenous (native) peoples
Music Videos Discovering Americahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWY50mH5awQ
I Can’t Wait to Colonizehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsyEGQmcmzE
I’m Spanish and I Know Ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnAxX5IcOOI