1. Question 3: What Factors Motivated European Exploration ?

2. PRECONDITION A: The Renaissance Spirit of Discovery

3. Known Human Population Centers circa 1475

4. What’s Really Out There???

5. PRECONDITION B: Technological Advances in Navigation Science and Ship Building make extended sea voyages possible Tools to navigate by the stars

6. The Introduction of the Caravel in the 1450’s – A Safe, Seagoing Vessel The Barca

7. Five Motivations for Exploration

8. 1. A New trade Route to avoid the Turkish middlemen who dominated the SILK ROAD

9. 2. Finding the “Northwest Passage” to China Africa India China Sail West to Go East

10. 3. Nation Building and Dominance of the Seas Go for GLORY! SPAIN PORTUGAL

11. 1 st Explorer = Henry the Navigator Portuguese Prince Established a Sailing School to perfect new tools and boats Funded Exploration expeditions down the West coast of Africa

12. Portuguese Exploration 1487-88 Bartolemeu Dias

13. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

14. 4. Seeking Gold, Silver, Precious Gems to Bankroll European Nation States – Go for GOLD!

15. 5. Post-Crusade Missionary Zeal – Go for God

16. Ready to Colonize ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsyEGQmc mzE