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The Age of Exploration A Review
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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
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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
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Portugal Prince Henry the Navigator financed expeditions along the African coast Opened school for sailing and navigating
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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)
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Spain Christopher Columbus- “Discovered” the New World (1492) Ferdinand Magellan- First to circumnavigate the world (1519-1522) Treaty of Tordesillas- Spain and Portugal (1494)
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Amerigo Vespucci Florentine New World/ Mundos Novus- published letter (1502) America is named after him (latinized/femininized) on a 1507 map
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Legacy Spice trade routes Columbian Exchange More stuff cheaper Conquest and genocide of indigenous peoples by Europeans African Slave Trade
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