1. The First Global Age: Europe and Asia
Chapter 15
The First Global Age: Europe and Asia

2. Section 1
The Search for Spices

3. APWH Themes: 1 – Interaction between Humans & the Environment 2 – Development & Interaction of Cultures 3 – State-building, expansion, and conflict 4 – Creation, Expansion & Interaction of Economic Systems

4. Essential Questions: Why did Europeans begin exploring the known world
Essential Questions: Why did Europeans begin exploring the known world? What new technology helped them do it? What non-European cultures were affected by this exploration?

5. Overland Trade Routes from Asia

6. Cartographers at Work

7. World Map from Genoa, 1457

8. Astrolabe

9. Caravel

10. Prince Henry “The Navigator” (1394-1460)

11. Bartholomew Dias (c )

12. Dias’ Voyage Rounding Cape of Good Hope

13. Bartholomew Dias Rounding the Cape of Good Hope

14. Vasco da Gama (c )

16. Christopher Columbus (c. 1451-1506)

17. Columbus’ First Voyage Route

18. Santa Maria Replica

19. Columbus lands in the New World

20. Line of Demarcation

21. Amerigo Vespucci ( )

22. Vasco Nùñez de Balboa (1475-1519)

23. Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)

24. Trying to find the Northwest Passage

25. The Real Northwest Passage Navigated 1903-1906