The Age of Exploration (all)

The Age of Exploration

Age of Exploration• Quick Review!

• What were some items that the Europeans wanted to get from Asia

• Where exactly did those items come from?

• Which land route did Europeans use to get those items?

• What happened to the land route that the Europeans used?

• What were some of the technologies Europeans used that allowed them to explore the unknown world?

Age of Exploration

• SO WE HAVE LOOKED AT SOME OF THE EUROPEAN MOTIVATION FOR EXPLORING THE WORLD AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT THE REST!

European Motivation

• The THREE MAIN REASONS EUROPEANS WANTED TO EXPLORE were

•GOD, GLORY, AND GOLD!!!!

European Motivation • Exploring for God

• After Constantinople was conquered in 1453 by Muslims they made European nations (Christians) pay a tax if they wanted to get goods from “The Spice Islands” or travel on the Silk Road

• EUROPEANS DID NOT LIKE GIVING MONEY TO MUSLIMS !

European Motivation

• Exploring for God

• European Christians, especially Catholics, wanted to stop the spread of Islam & convert non-Christians to the faith

• Explorers were encouraged to spread Christianity or bring missionaries who would focus only on conversions

European Motivation • EXPLORING FOR GLORY

• Kings who sponsored voyages of exploration gained overseas colonies, new sources of wealth for their nation, & increased power

• Exploration presented Europeans the opportunity to rise from poverty and gain fame, fortune, & status

European Motivation

• EXPLORING FOR GLORY

• How does this work?

• Lets look at this chart!!!!

More wealth found

Equal more power in war

Equals your country becomes most powerful and you are remembered forever

European Motivation • EXPLORING FOR GOLD

• Merchants began looking for quick, direct trade routes to Asia to avoid Muslim & Italian merchants & increase profits

• The Crusades & Renaissance stimulated European desires for exotic Asian luxury goods

European Motivation

• EXPLORING FOR GOLD

• Once European countries started going to new continents they looked for gold, silver, and natural resources!

European Motivation Reasons for Exploration

Natural Resources along With Gold and SilverMeans good things forWhatever country

Stop paying money to Muslims by looking for newRoute to Spices and whatever people you meet you can convert to Christianity! EVEN IF THEY DO NOT WANT TO CONVERT!

The more you find the more wealth you have and the more powerful your king and country is

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• These are the four countries that contributed the most to Exploration

Portugal

England

Spain

France

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION

• Portugal:

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• Portugal: Was the first major player in exploration thanks to Prince Henry

The Navigator

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• Prince Henry The Navigator: He was the son of a King who never went on

ships to explore but played an important part into Portugal’s exploration

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• Prince Henry The Navigator: He brought in the best map makers, ship

builders and sailors from all around Europe to learn at the navigation school he created.

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• Prince Henry The Navigator: Thanks to his navigational school and all the

men who went to it along with him funding voyages (providing cash) Portugal was the first European country to sail down Africa and reach the Indies via a water route!


• Prince Henry The Navigator: Portugal set up colonies on the African Coast, the Spice Islands, and Brazil

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• Thanks to Prince Henry’s expeditions Europe now had maps of the West

African coast, new trade routes to The Indies, spread Christianity to the people of The Indies, trading posts on West Africa (Led to slavery), and he made Portugal rich thanks to all the wealth their explorers discovered!!!!


• Portugal sailors were scared to go south towards Africa bc of all the “MONSTERS” they saw in the ocean (Sharks and Whales)


• Spain


• Spain took notice of what Portugal was doing and thanks to its King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella Spain sponsored more expeditions overseas than any other country!


• Spain sent Conquistadors (explorers) to the new world to find gold, claim land, and spread Christianity


• The Conquistadors that Spain sent to the new world were very successful and established Spanish colonies in both North and South America

• Thanks to all the gold and resources discovered Spain became the most powerful country in Europe early on during the Age of Exploration!


• Spain and Portugal had a meeting to divide the world up amongst themselves and they came up with the Treaty of Tordesillas

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• Treaty of Tordesillas: Under this agreement in 1494 Portugal was promised

any new land east of the line and Spain west of the line. Neither side could develop colonies on the other side of the line!

• WHO GOT THE BETTER DEAL?

• One huge result of the treaty is the land that the Spanish took over west of the line now mainly speak Spanish and where Portugal took over they speak Portuguese


• France:


• France: The French main reason for exploring were FISH AND FUR!


• France: French taught Christianity to Native Americans but didn’t make them slaves!


• France: The French wanted to find a Northwest Passage to Asia and the spices of The Spice Islands!

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• France: When they did not find that passage they started making colonies

(permanent) settlements in Modern day Canada and the middle of the United States!

MAJOR PLAYERS OF EXPLORATION• England:


• England: The English came to the New World for religious reasons (persecuted in England), gold, and to find new land to make colonies on


• England: The English explored/settled in the modern day East Coast of the United States and portions of Canada.


• The Dutch (Netherlands): They also explored the east coast of America and actually settled at a place we now call NEW YORK CITY, but they were kicked out of the New World by the English!

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The Age of Exploration (all)