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Spain: Why Explore in 1492?

Spain: Why Explore in 1492?. Seeking Faster Trade Routes to Asia. Spices, silk, & cotton from China and Asia Overland trade routes controlled by Muslim rulers. Desire to Spread Christianity. Crusades = 300 year holy war to control Jerusalem. The Need to Fund the Monarchy. The Alhambra.

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Spain: Why Explore in 1492?

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  1. Spain: Why Explore in 1492?

  2. Seeking Faster Trade Routes to Asia • Spices, silk, & cotton from China and Asia • Overland trade routes controlled by Muslim rulers

  3. Desire to Spread Christianity • Crusades = 300 year holy war to control Jerusalem

  4. The Need to Fund the Monarchy The Alhambra

  5. Marco Polo • Venetian merchant who explored Asia in the 1270s

  6. Advances in Technology

  7. The “Catholic Kings” • King Ferdinand of Aragon & Queen Isabel of Castile unite Spain in 1469 through marriage

  8. The Reconquista • 1478 = Formation of Inquisition in Spain • 1492 = Expulsion of Jews from Spain • 1492 = Conquest of Granada, the last Islamic kingdom in Spain

  9. http://explorethemed.com/reconquista.asp?c=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJZ2m6_T1wc

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