modern world history: the age of explorers
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An Age of Explorations and Isolation1400-1800
Essential Question:
What fueled the age of exploration and why did China and Japan withdraw into isolation?
Section 1: Europeans Explore the East
Main Idea
• Advances in sailing technology enabled Europeans to explore other parts of the world
So WHAT????
• European exploration was an important step in creating the globalized world we now live in
Section 1: Terms & Names
• Prince Henry
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Vasco da Gama
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Dutch East India Company
For Gold, Glory, and God!!!
Early Contact Limited
• New desire for contact with Asia develops in Europe in early 1400s
What changes were happening in Europe that would fuel this desire?
For Gold, Glory, and God!!!
Europeans Seek New Trade Routes
• Main reason for exploration is to gain wealth GOLD!!!
• Contact during Crusades spurs demand for Asian goods
We’ll pay top livre for those delicious
spices!
Give a crusader a cookie…
Christians go fight the crusades “for the holy
lands”
Spend lots of time killing things.
ALSO, begin to enjoy some of the goods
they encounter (spices, fabrics, etc)
The crusades end
The Europeans still want their luxury
goods. They will pay good money for them
For Gold, Glory, and God!!!
Europeans Seek New Trade Routes (cont.)
• Muslims and Italians control trade from East to West
• Other European nations want to bypass these powers
For Gold, Glory, and God!!!
The Spread of Christianity
• Desire to spread Christianity also pushed exploration
• Bernal Diaz del Castillo
“To serve God and His Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as
all men desire to do”
Technology Makes Exploration Possible
In the 1400s, the caravel makes it possible to sail
against the wind
Thanks for the triangle sail idea Arab lands. Now, give us
your lands and convert to Christianity. Thaaaanks.
For Gold, Glory, and God!!!
Technology Makes Exploration Possible
• Astrolabe makes navigation easier
For Gold, Glory, and God!!!
Technology Makes Exploration Possible
• Magnetic compass improves tracking of direction
Portugal Leads the Way
The Portuguese Explore Africa
• Prince Henry, the son of Portugal’s king, supports exploration
• In 1419, he founds navigation school on coast of Portugal
• By 1460, Portuguese have trading posts along west coast of Africa
1394-1460
Portugal Leads the Way
Spain Also Makes a Claim
A Rival Power
• In 1492 Columbus sails for Spain
• Convinces Spanish to support plan to reach Asia by sailing…West
• Reaches the Americas instead
Spain Also Makes Claim
A Rival Power
• Opens Americas to exploration and colonization
• In 1493, pope divides these lands between Spain and Portugal
• Agreement formalized by Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494
Portugal’s Trading Empire
BIG idea: These gains break
Muslim/Italian hold on trade
Trading Empires in the Indian Ocean
Other Nations Challenge the Portuguese
• English and Dutch begin moving into Asia in 17th c.
• Dutch have more ships than any other nation in 1600
• Dutch and English weaken Portuguese control of Asian trade
• Dutch then overpower English
• Form Dutch East India Company for Asian trade
Trading Empires in the Indian Ocean
European Trade Outposts
• In 1619, Dutch set up trade headquarters at Batavia, on Java
• Throughout 1600s, Dutch trade grows
• Amsterdam, Dutch capital, becomes a wealthy city
• Dutch also control southern tip of Africa
• England’s East India Company gains strength in India
• France also gains trade foothold in India
Section 2: China Limits European Contacts
European Trade Outposts
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