1. The Age of Exploration A Review

2. Three G’s God, Glory, and Gold Motives: 1. Economic- All water route, rise of Ottoman Empire meant the loss of over land route 2. Religious- Prester John myth in India

3. Improvements in Cartography and Technology Map making- Mercator Projection Tools to measure latitude: magnetic compass, astrolabe, and cross staff Makes it easier to sail Caravel could sail into the wind and in the ocean

4. Portugal Prince Henry the Navigator financed expeditions along the African coast Opened school for sailing and navigating

5. Bartholomew Dias- Cape of Good Hope (1488) Vasco de Gama- First voyage to India and established ports at Goa and Calicut for spice trade (1498) Pedro Cabal- “Discovered” Brazil (1500)

6. Spain Christopher Columbus- “Discovered” the New World (1492) Ferdinand Magellan- First to circumnavigate the world (1519-1522) Treaty of Tordesillas- Spain and Portugal (1494)

7. Amerigo Vespucci Florentine New World/ Mundos Novus- published letter (1502) America is named after him (latinized/femininized) on a 1507 map

8. Legacy Spice trade routes Columbian Exchange More stuff cheaper Conquest and genocide of indigenous peoples by Europeans African Slave Trade