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Mr Divett Exploring the Seas Trade was going on before Renaissance Greeks Muslim Arabs Vikings It was disrupted by The Black Death One third of Europes population died Thats more than 25 million people ID: 626105

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Slide1

The Search for Spices

Mr. DivettSlide2

Exploring the Seas

Trade was going on before RenaissanceGreeksMuslim ArabsVikingsIt was disrupted by…Slide3

The Black Death

One third of Europe’s population diedThat’s more than 25 million peopleSlide4

Spice Trade

Spices were valuableThe growing population of Europe led to the need for tradeMost of the spices came from the Moluccas,

present day Indonesia

Arab and Italian merchants controlled tradeSlide5

Exploration

Europeans wanted to find a more direct route to AsiaPrince Henry sponsored Portuguese explorationPrince Henry wanted to:Convert Africans to Christianity

Find riches

Find a more direct route to AsiaSlide6

Exploration

Henry enlisted cartographers, or map makersBartholomeu Dias sailed around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope in 1488Vasco da Gama

landed on

Calcut

, India in 1497

He lost half his crew but became enormously wealthy through trade.Slide7

Vasco da GamaSlide8

Columbus

Christopher Columbus wanted to get in on the successHe was ItalianHe knew the earth was sphericalHe underestimated the size of the earthPortugal refused to sponsor himSlide9

ColumbusSlide10

Sponsorship

Spain gave Columbus a chanceFerdinand and Isabella sponsored him because they wanted to:Increase their authorityStrengthen CatholicismBring wealth and prestigeSlide11

Ferdinand and IsabellaSlide12

Columbus

On August 3, 1492 Columbus set sailThe Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria carried themSlide13

Columbus

On October 12 Columbus landed in the new worldHe cruised around the islands of the Caribbean'sHe thought he had had landed in the IndiesThis is where the term “Indians” comes fromLater on it was realized that it was an unknown landSlide14

Dividing the World

In 1493 Pope Alexander VI set the Line of DemarcationThis gave trading and exploration rights to Spain west of the line, and Portugal eastThe line was agreed upon and signed in 1494 in the Treaty of

TordesillasSlide15

Naming the New World

Martin Waldseemuller coined the term “America”The Caribbean islands are now called the “West Indies”Slide16

Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan set out to find a direct way to Asia He was PortugueseHe left on September 20, 1519 from Spain

He cruised the east coast looking for a passage to the Pacific Ocean

They braved storms but eventually found the what came to be known as the Straight of MagellanSlide17

MagellanSlide18

The Journey of MagellanSlide19

Carrying On

Magellan’s crew wanted to turn back after their discoveryMagellan wanted to push on to the IndiesThe Pacific Ocean was way larger than he anticipatedIt took them four months to get there.They arrived at the PhilippinesSlide20

Death

Magellan tried to fight some Philippines and was killedThe 18 survivors of his crew returned to SpainThey were the first to circumnavigate the globe, or sail all the way around itSlide21