1. Chapter 2: Section 2 Early Exploration
Essential Question: Why did Spain and Portugal want to find a sea route to Asia?
Vocabulary words:
saga
strait
line of demarcation
circumnavigate

2. Seeking New Trade Routes
Main idea: Portugal took the lead in finding a sea route to India
Portugal- first European power to explore the boundaries of the known world

3. Early Portuguese Voyages
Prince Henry of Portugal
Henry the Navigator
Began “school of navigation”
astronomers, geographers, cartographers, mathematicians
Updated charts and maps as new information was learned
Planned voyages but did not take any

4. Early Portuguese Voyages
Gold Coast
Portuguese ships moved south along the west coast of Africa to trade gold and ivory
Became known as Gold Coast
Mid-1400s, Portuguese began buying slaves there too
King John II urged Portuguese sea captains to move further along the African coast in search of a direct route to India and China for trade

5. Bartholomeu Dias Sailed around the southernmost point of Africa
Called it the “Cape of Storms”
King John renamed it the Cape of Good Hope
King John hoped the passage around Africa would lead to a new route to India

6. Vasco da Gama
July 1497-
Sailed from Portugal with four ships making a huge semicircular sweep through the Atlantic Ocean to get around the Cape of Good Hope safely
At sea for 96 days
Reached India at the port of Calicut in May 1498
Finally completing the eastern sea route to Asia

7. Portuguese Trading Empire
Pedro Alvares Cabral in charge of a fleet of 13 ships sailing from Lisbon to Asia
Reached Brazil and claimed some of the land, giving Portugal a stake in the Americas
Continued to India and established first permanent forts there for Portugal
Portuguese fleets made annual voyages to India after that
Lisbon became trading center of Europe

8. Portuguese Trading Empire
Pedro Alvares Cabral in charge of a fleet of 13 ships sailing from Lisbon to Asia
Reached Brazil and claimed some of the land, giving Portugal a stake in the Americas
Continued to India and established first permanent forts there for Portugal
Portuguese fleets made annual voyages to India after that
Lisbon became trading center of Europe