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Three Major Motivations

Quaestio : What aspects of the story of the “discovery” of the “New World” are most valuable to us as history? Nunc Agenda : Complete the DBQ worksheet… “What Motivated Europeans to Explore?”. Three Major Motivations. GOLD. Three Major Motivations. GOD. Three Major Motivations.

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Three Major Motivations

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  1. Quaestio: What aspects of the story of the “discovery” of the “New World” are most valuable to us as history?Nunc Agenda: Complete the DBQ worksheet… “What Motivated Europeans to Explore?”

  2. Three Major Motivations GOLD

  3. Three Major Motivations GOD

  4. Three Major Motivations GLORY

  5. The Need for Spices! • All the best trade goods came from Asia (spices, silks, etc) • Black Death and fall of the Mongol Empire weakened trade • Asia-Europe trade was dominated by Arabs and Italians • Other European countries wanted access to trade with Asia • Most important place = Moluccas (modern day Indonesia) • Known as the “Spice Islands” or the “East Indies” • A new route to the Indies had to be found!!!

  6. Indian Ocean Trade

  7. Silk Road

  8. Moluccas (aka Spice Islands)

  9. Around Africa to Asia • Portugal sponsored first explorations • 1415- Prince Henry conquered Canary Islands, Madeira, and Azores near Spain • 1488- With the help of cartogrpahers, Bartholomeu Dias successfully navigated around the Southern tip of Africa (named Cape of Good Hope) • 1497- Vasco De Gama made it all the way to India made enormous profits (though many in his crew died of scurvy)

  10. Go West to Go East • Italian navigator Christopher Columbus convinces Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to finance his idea to get the Indies by going West around the Earth (underestimated Earth’s size) • Spain had just completed the Reconquista, expelling Muslims and Jews, who took much wealth and knowledge with them, and F and I wanted to strengthen their power, so they were desperate

  11. So… Where Are We Exactly? • 1492- Columbus instead found the Americas in his way, but first mistook them for the Indies • When it was clear this was NOT Asia, F & I asked the Pope (also Spanish) to grant Spain all of the New World • Pope set the Line of Demarcation dividing the non-European world between Portugal (East) and Spain (West)

  12. Just a Little Further… • French, Dutch, English try to find a way across through the North… no luck • 1513- Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crosses Panama and finds the Pacific Ocean! • 1519- Ferdinand Magellan and his crew sailed all the way around the bottom of South America (1520), and then 4 months later made it to the Philippines, where Magellan was killed • By 1521 the rest of the crew made it back to Spain, having circumnavigated the globe

  13. Quaestio: What aspects of the story of the “discovery” of the “New World” are most valuable to us as history?Activity: Read the documents related to the story of Columbus, answer the questions, and then consider the Quaestio…

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