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The Search for Spices

The Search for Spices. Exploration. European population growing Demand for traded goods Spices Preserve food Add flavor to meat Make medicine and perfume. The Search for Spices. Moluccas Chief source of spices Chain of islands in present day Indonesia

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The Search for Spices

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  1. The Search for Spices

  2. Exploration • European population growing • Demand for traded goods • Spices • Preserve food • Add flavor to meat • Make medicine and perfume

  3. The Search for Spices • Moluccas • Chief source of spices • Chain of islands in present day Indonesia • Arabs and Italians controlled most of the trade going to Europe • Europeans wanted direct route to Asia

  4. The Search for Spices • Portugal • Prince Henry • Led the way for sponsoring exploration in Portugal • Expanded into Muslim North Africa • Tried to convert to Christianity • Find riches that Muslim traders had

  5. Portugal • Wanted to find easier way to Asia • Sent ships south to explore the Western coast of Africa • 1488- Dias • Rounded Southern tip of Africa • Cape of Good Hope

  6. Portugal • Vasco Da Gama • Went farther than Cape of Good Hope • Calicut, India • Highly profitable • Kept going back for more spices • Confirmed Portugal as a world power

  7. Christopher Columbus • Portugal’s success led to others wanting to explore • Christopher Columbus • Wanted to reach East Indies by sailing West on Atlantic • Knew the world was round • Underestimated Earth’s size

  8. Christopher Columbus • Portugal refused to sponsor him • Persuaded Spain to finance voyage • Ferdinand and Isabella • Hoped voyage would bring wealth and prestige

  9. Christopher Columbus • Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria • Several weeks with no land • Landed on Caribbean • Called natives Indians • Thought he was in Indies • Three more voyages • Still thought he had reached East Asia

  10. New World • Eventually people figured out that Columbus had found a route to new continents • Spain asked pope for the rights to the new world

  11. New World • Line of Demarcation • Divided non-European land into two zones • Spain controlled West of the line • Portugal controlled East of the line

  12. Search Continues • Still looking for direct route to Asia • Ferdinand Magellan • Wanted to find Ocean • Went to South America • Straits of Magellan • Pacific Ocean

  13. Magellan • Crew wanted to return the way they had come • Magellan wanted to keep going to east Indies • Underestimated size of the Pacific • Three years later they returned to Spain • Only 18 crew members survive • First to circumnavigate globe

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