Are you planning on moving away once you are an adult? Where would you like to go?

Why?

SWBAT:List and describe the foundations of European Exploration

Define • Commercial Revolution • Subsidies• Galleys• joint stock company• tariffs

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• Mapmaking improved due the goal of pictorial accuracy.• New maps emphasized that the world was round and

Africa and Asia were added with increased detail.• Inspired by new maps, daring sea captains began to set

out to new areas across the Atlantic. • The goal was to find a quicker route from Europe to

Asia. • Compass and Astrolabe• Improvements also made to ships to make them sail

against the wind, to travel quickly and to be steered more accurately.

• Improved ways of doing business- using money and increased banking services.

• During the 1400s a standardization of money occurred, coins were given fixed values.

• New shipments of gold and silver from the New World increased supplies needed by European monarchs.

• Joint-stock companies created . Owners would sell shares to investors, thus making them co-owners.

• New exploration was often spurred on by rivalries between competing countries.

• Gaining riches and colonies = POWER• Mercantilism= a country’s gov. must

make as much money as possible.• Favorable balance of trade = selling more

goods than what was imported in.• Get colonies- metals, raw materials,

manufactured goods.

• Population increased after 1500. Harsh living conditions prompted some to want to live a better life.

• Adventure, possible wealth, fame served as a catalyst.

• Escape religious or political persecution.

Motives for European Exploration

1. Crusades by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. Muslim Control Routes.

2. Renaissance curiosity about other lands and peoples.

3. Reformation refugees & missionaries.

4. Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue.

5. Technological advances.6. Fame and fortune.

Foundations of ExplorationReview Questions:1. Describe the improvements in navigational aids & ship

construction that made long range exploration possible?2. What role did colonies play in mercantilism?3. How would Mercantilism cause international tension to

grow?