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Age of Exploration

Age of Exploration. Explorers Discover New Lands. New Spirit of the Renaissance. How did the new ideas and values of the Renaissance lead to the Age of Exploration? During Leonardo’s time, Portuguese sailors charted the coast of Africa and others discovered new continents. The Individual.

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Age of Exploration

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  1. Age of Exploration Explorers Discover New Lands

  2. New Spirit of the Renaissance • How did the new ideas and values of the Renaissance lead to the Age of Exploration? • During Leonardo’s time, Portuguese sailors charted the coast of Africa and others discovered new continents

  3. The Individual • Explorers wanted to obtain individual glory, they were curious, ambitious, and confident just like Renaissance artists

  4. Factors that encouraged exploration • Search for spices and profits • Crusades led to demand for more goods from Asia • Italian merchants controlled Eastern Mediterranean, had a monopoly on the spice trade, could make them $$ • Wanted a route free of Turks – religious hostilities were high

  5. More Factors in Exploring • Wanted to spread Christianity • New Technology helps! • Caravel – ship with triangular sails for tacking into the wind, square ones for running before the wind • Astrolabe – used stars to decipher where on the earth one was in relation to the equator • Compass – indicates your direction

  6. Portuguese exploration • 1420 – Prince Henry create a school for navigation – He was a patron of exploration • First successful expeditions brought gold and slaves from Africa, later ivory as well • Gold Coast at Ghana • This encouraged further exploration – want to reach the Indies

  7. Explorations around Africa • Bartholomeu Dias – reached Cape of Good Hope, southern most tip of Africa • Vasco da Gama – 1497, he took 4 ships to India, first to round the Cape of Good Hope • Led to Portuguese domination of trade on Indian Ocean, gave them a direct sea route to India, China and Spice Islands

  8. “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” • Columbus convinced Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain to sponsor his quest across the Atlantic to reach India • he estimated this would only be 2,000 miles • Thought the world was round, wanted to reach Japan too • Nina, Pinta and Sana Maria • Landed in the Bahamas, didn’t find the spices, but found natives and exotic birds and fruit

  9. So why do we give him such credit? • Viking voyages had landed in the Americas first! • Columbus’s exploration led to lasting and permanent settlements… • What else did it lead to?

  10. Amerigo Vespucci • Proclaimed this a new continent after exploring coastline of Brazil, its not Asia! • Leads to more explorations in a frenzy • Vasco Nunez de Balboa – slashed through Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean • Pope divides new lands between Spain and Portugal, (because they didn’t already belong to someone else?), at the Line of Demarcation

  11. Ferdinand Magellan • Portuguese sailor sailed round the world, funded by Spain with 5 ships and crews • The trip took 3 years and cost most their lives, not an easy trip! • Proved the Americas were separate continents. • Proved the world was much larger than anyone had thought.

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