The Age of exploration

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