1. The Age of Exploration

2. Understanding timelines
BCE CE
1st century
2nd century
3rd century

3. the Age of exploration
A great period of discovery from the later half of the fifteenth through the sixteenth centuries.

4. The Renaissance
French for 'rebirth‘ Europeans became more interested in studying the world around them.

5. Asian Goods
Muslim Traders
Italians
Path of Asian Goods

6. Europeans Seek New Trade Routes
Main desire for exploration:
New sources of wealth (spices & luxury goods from Asia)
Demand was higher than supply meant merchants could charge higher prices
England, Spain, Portugal, and France wanted to bypass Italian merchants and find new sea routes for themselves
To spread Christianity throughout the world.

7. New and Improved Tools of Exploration
The caravel.
Sturdy
Triangular sails stronger against the wind
Large cargo area
Shallow draft allowed it to explore close to the shore.

8. Improved Maps- latitude and longitude
New and Improved
Improved Maps- latitude and longitude
Astrolabe- used for measuring the distance north or south of the equator
Compass

9. Europe in the 15th Century (1400s)
Portugal

10. Portugal leads the way
In the early 1400s, Prince Henry, known as the Navigator, encouraged sea captains to sail south along the coast of West Africa.
He founded a school to teach navigation.
Under Henry's guidance, the Portuguese designed a new type of ship called the caravel.

11. Prince Henry The Navigator

12. SPAIN

13. :
Spain Joins in…
The Age of Exploration would now become a competitive pursuit that would result in the European colonization of India, the Far East, the New World and eventually the establishment of empires.

14. Routes and Accomplishments
FAMOUS EXPLORERS

15. 1418 Prince Henry the Navigator builds a school for sailors.
IMPORTANT!
Prince Henry planned and sponsored explorations. He did not go on any of the explorations. Nevertheless, the prince is still considered an explorer.

16. Bartolomeu Dias 1488 PORTUGAL
Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa.
Discovers the Cape of Good Hope.

17. Portugal
Dias
Voyage
1488
Cape of Good Hope

18. Christopher columbus 1492 SPAIN
Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus lands on an island of the Bahamas.
Claims the land for Spain.

19. Spain
Bahamas
“New World”
Columbus
Voyage
1492

20. Vasco da Gama 1497
PORTUGAL Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama finds a sea route to India by sailing around Africa. Claims the land for Portugal

21. Portugal
India
Vasco Da Gama’s
Voyage
1498

22. John Cabot 1497
ENGLAND
Italian-born explorer John Cabot sails westwards from England in hopes to find a passage to Asia.
On 24 June, 1497, he sights land on the northeast coast of Canada and calls it New-found-land (present day Newfoundland, Canada). He believes it is Asia and claims it for England.

23. England
Canada
JOHN CABOT’S Voyage
1497

24. John Cabot claims Northeast Canada for England

25. Ferdinand Magellan
SPAIN Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads the first expedition that circumnavigates the world.
Magellan also names the Pacific Ocean (a calm, peaceful ocean).

27. Henry Hudson 1607
England
English explorer Henry Hudson explores the Hudson Bay, and the Hudson River (North America).
Claims the land for England.
On his fourth voyage, he is left to die with his young son and seven others by a mutinous crew. Hudson was never heard from again.

28. Canada
England
Hudson Bay
Henry Hudson’s
Voyage
1610

29. Henry Hudson’s fourth and last Voyage

30. In the end…
The Age of Exploration opened up the world for further exploration, colonization, conquest, and eventually European empire building.

32. Outcomes of Exploration
Clash of Cultures: Native tribes in Africa & North/South America did not want to be conquered-they had their own cultures-so they fought back.
Religious Conversion: Missionaries were sent to convert the conquered Natives to Christianity.
Spread of Diseases: Without knowing, Europeans carried smallpox, malaria & the measles to the Americas-killing TENS of THOUSANDS of people.
Slavery: Africans & natives of the Americas forced to work under horrible conditions.

33. Major European Trade Routes and Colonies-1750 (18th Century)

34. Credits
Mariner’s Museum –Retrieved from