1. & Big Five Exploring Countries in Europe
Motives for these countries to Explore
Trade – Discovery - Religion
& Big Five Exploring Countries in Europe
Portugal – Spain – France – England - Netherlands

2. Causes of the Age of Exploration
Trade (gold)
Luxury goods in Asia
Find a way around the Muslims
New Discoveries (glory)
Claimed new lands by right of discovery
Gained power and wealth by establishing new port cities
Spread Christianity (god)
Convert the indigenous people
Used to justified the conquest of indigenous people

3. Why did Europeans have to sail to India and China?
Muslim World
circa 1500
Why did Europeans have to sail to India and China?

4. The Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator Vasco da Gama
Built schools for sailors
Brought in the best sailors in Europe
Learned new techniques
New equipment developed
Built shipyards
Financed expeditions around Africa
Vasco da Gama
1st European to sail to India

5. Why did the Portuguese want to get to these places?
Portuguese exploration 1400s-1500s
Why did the Portuguese want to get to these places?

6. The Spanish Reconquista of Spain - 1492 Christopher Columbus
Drove all Muslims out of Spain
Made Spain very wealthy
Christopher Columbus
Italian sailor
Thought he could sail to China going West
Reached the Americas, thought he was in India
Columbian Exchange
Greatest biological exchange in history
1st time crops, animals, diseases were exchanged between the New world and the Old

7. How did this change Europe? The Americas?

8. Discovery of the Americas
Lead to an explosion of expeditions
Colonization – Settling new lands
Conquistadors
Explorers looking to conquer indigenous people
Get rich in the process
Trade ports and colonies allowed countries to get the resources of these newly discovered areas
Scramble to find more land and to take over as much land and resources as possible
How much land there was to be had was unknown and kept a secret from other rival countries
Line of Demarcation
Pope settled dispute over who could explore where

9. Why did the Portuguese ask to move the line further West?

10. The English Hired expert explorers to explore for them
John Cabot
Henry Hudson
Established the East India Company
Set up trade ports all over the world
Company ruled over new colonies
Helped establish the Triangular Trade
From 1500s to the 1800s the British Empire would became the largest empire the world has ever known.

11. Voyages of James Cook

12. Where did the British explore?

13. French Explored first into Canada Traded with Native Americas
Lived with indigenous people rather than conquering them
Had to compete with England
Began exploring the world
Setting up colonies

14. Samuel de Champlain

15. Where did the French Explore?

16. The Dutch (Netherlands)
The last of the 5 major countries to explore the world.
Created the Dutch East India Company
Set up trade in Indonesia, Americas and Africa
Became the richest country in the world by 1660s

17. First Dutch Expeditions

18. The Dutch in Asia

19. Division of the Spice Islands
Europeans setup trade posts in South East Asia
France
Spain
Netherlands
England
Portugal

20. Dutch Exploration of the Australasia