1. The Age of Exploration

2. Setting the Scene Feelings of the Renaissance
Man can do _____________________________
We are ____________________________
____________________________ sails around the world in order to find a different route to ______________
Lots of __________________ was available for nations that could increase ____________
Anything, superior, Magellan, Asia, money, trade

3. The Way Things Were
For a long time, Europeans were solely attracted to good from _________________
Merchants and traders would travel across land from Europe to Asia to get ___________ and _________________
However, in the 14th century, travel by land was made very difficult by wars, and conquests that were going on
Merchants, not wanting to lose ___________ opportunities, began looking for a way to get to Asia by _____________
By the end of the _______ century, Europeans began taking overseas journeys
Asia, silk, spices, trade, sea, 15th

5. Why expand? Europeans had many reasons for expanding:
More __________________ = More ___________
Spices and precious metals
Religious Zeal
______________________________ must be converted to Catholicism
“catholic” = __________________________________
“Catholic” = specific Christian religion
Desire for credit
Spirit of ____________________________
Fame and fortune
Basically…_____________________________
Marks the beginning of a _________________
Trade, money, savages, adventure….Gold, God, and Glory, global age

6. The First Trading Empire
______________________ took the first step
In _________, Portuguese fleets began traveling south, down the coast of _________
A new source of gold was found, causing to call the southern coast of western Africa the “_____________________________”
Portuguese sea captains heard reports of a route to Asia going around the tip of Africa
Vasco de Gama took this route
He made it to ___________________, got a boat load of ____________________ and made a profit of several thousand percent!!
Portugal, 1420, Africa, Gold Coast, India, spices,

7. The Portuguese Take Control
Because of de Gama’s success, many people followed in his footsteps (waves?  )
The goal of the Portuguese was to _________ the Muslims control of the spice trade
To get complete control, the Portuguese needed control of _____________________
In Melaka, the Portuguese signed a ________ with a local ruler to establish control of the spice trade
The Portuguese were so successful because they had ________________ and _________
Destroy, Melaka, treaty, skill, guns

9. Where’d the Skill Come From?
Most of Europe’s sailing knowledge came from the ________________
Charts and drawings known as ____________ showed the shape of coastlines
However, because they did not take into account the _____________________ of the Earth they were useless for overseas trips
A few new inventions helped the Europeans
______________________________ the art and science of mapmaking
________________________
Triangular ___________________
Arabs, portolani, curvature, cartography, compass, sails

10. Voyages to America
The Portuguese reached the spice trade by sailing _____________________
The Spanish sought to reach it by going _____ because they knew the world was not _______
Christopher Columbus was ______________ but became a prominent Spanish explorer
He persuaded Queen __________________ to fund his trip in 1492
He was looking for _______________ but reached the Americas instead (Not America)
He called all the people he found in the Caribbean and Central America “___________”
Eastward, west, flat, Italian, Isabella, India, Indians

12. A Line of Demarcation
Spain and Portugal became fierce rivals. Both feared that the other would impede on their new territories.
In order to protect their new holdings, they signed the Treaty of __________________
This treaty set up an imaginary line, dividing the globe called the line of _______________
Portugal got everything ________________ of the line and Spain got everything to the ________________ of it
This meant that Portugal got _____________ and Spain got the _____________________
Line of demarcation, Tordesillas, demarcation, east, west, Africa, Americas,

13. Race to the Americas
Soon after the story of Christopher Columbus reached Europe, many realized that he had discovered an entirely new frontier
European ______________________ began sponsoring explorers to go to the Americas
SIDENOTE: The Americas were not called the “Americas” until the ______________
Amerigo Vespucci went on many voyages to “The New World” and wrote letters home describing the lands he saw
These letters led to the use of the name ______________________ for the new lands
Governments, 1500s, America

15. The Not-So-New World
Europeans often viewed The New World as an opportunity for conquest and exploitation
Spanish __________________________ were well-armed, determined men
_______________ overthrew the Aztec Empire in three years
_______________ took control of the Incas
In a classic move of ____________________ Queen Isabella claimed all Native Americans were now under her control and allowed Spaniards to use them as _______________
Conquistadors, Cortes, Pizzaro, imperialism, laborers,

16. The Sad Story Europeans took a toll on the native population
_____________________________
For example…
Hispaniola’s population went from 250,000 to 500
Mexico went from 25 million to ____ million
Spanish settlers were under orders to protect the native people, but usually did not
All native political, religious, and economic systems were replaced by ________________ systems
Forced labor, disease, starvation, one, European

17. Economic Impact and Competition
International trade led to commercial capitalism which helped lead to a world _____________
The main goal of trade was ______________
The New World was rich with _____________, ______________________, and livestock
The extensive exchange of material between the Old and New Worlds became known as the ____________________________________
Economy, MONEY!!, metal, cash crops, Columbian exchange,

19. New Rivals Enter the Trading Game
The English
At the beginning of the ______ century, they began establishing trade relationships in India
The Dutch
Arrived in India in _______
East India Company (India)
West India Company (______________________)
The French
In the _____________, they colonized parts of _________________ and ____________________
France and England had such a fierce rivalry going that they drove the _______________ out of business
17th, 1595, Americas, 1600s, Canada, Louisiana, Dutch

20. Taking Over the World
In the 1500s and 1600s European nations began establishing __________________
A colony is a settlement of people living in a new territory but under the control of a __________________________________
Parent countries wanted to encourage ____________________ to their colonies.
To do this they
Granted _____________________ to new industries
Improved _________________________
Placed high ____________________ on foreign goods to keep them out of the country
Colonies, parent country, exports, subsidies, transportation, tariffs