The Age of exploration
Travel, trade and exploration
- Gaspar Correa and Vasco da Gama
- Courageous voyage
- Success
- Finding the way
- Early exploration
- Knowledge of the world
- Charts
- Need for better maps
- New old learning
- T-O Maps
- Geography
- Planets
- Meeting the demand for goods
- Risk for Wealth
- Goods from the east
- Mark-ups
- East-west trade
- Italy: center of trade
- A monopoly
- Carrying Christianity across the sea
- European traders sought goods and wanted to spread Christianity
- The Spanish and Portuguese Vs. Islam
- Religious wars influenced exploration
- Missionaries studied the culture in foreign countries to understand the people
- Other missionaries used torture to subdue non-believers
- Exploration and gold
- Searching for new markets
- Imports/exports
- Balance of trade
- Portuguese trade
- Needs/wants
- Greater reward than gold: a sea route to the East
- Adventure and Profit
- "Henry the Navigator"
- Cape Bojador
- Prince Henry, Navigator
- Dreams
- Treasure hunt
- Sagres
- Knowledge and maps
- Preparations for sailing
- Problems
- Solutions
- Diaries
- New Hardware
- The Caravel
- Speedier passage
- The Portuguese Explorations
- Slow work
- The "Green sea of darkness"
- Gil Eanes
- Ships went further down the African coast
- Support for exploration
- Vasco da Gama sailed around Africa
- Commerce and Colonies
- Problems financing the voyages
- Investing in overseas trade
- Capital
- Investors
- Establishing colonies
- Colonies
- Uninhabited Islands
- Plantations
- African Slaves
- Supply and demand
- Trading in the east
- Portuguese traders in the east
- Portuguese fleets brought goods
- Portuguese explorers conquered port cities
- Exploring the Americas
- Columbus’ plan
- Work
- Time
- Rewards
- Nearby land
- Watch shifts
- Sleep/health
- Christopher Columbus
- Boyhood
- Early career
- Finance
- Sailing
- Mutiny
- San Salvador
- The name ‘America’
- The Spanish in the Americas
- Columbus’ four voyages
- The treaty of Tordesillas
- Rumors of gold and silver
- Spanish colonists
- Death of the natives
- Spanish priests attempted to convert the natives to Christianity
- Europeans in the Americas
- New world attracted everyone
- Second large voyage after Columbus was the English
- Circumnavigation
- Balboa and Magellan
- The northwest passage
- A wealth of resources
- Colonies were established in the new world