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Age of Exploration & Isolation

Age of Exploration & Isolation. Chapter 19.1 Europeans Explore the East. Factors Spur Exploration. Renaissance curiosity about world GOLD : Desire for new sources of wealth & trade GLORY : fame & for King & Country GOD : Missionary impetus to spread Christianity. Europeans Want Spices.

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Age of Exploration & Isolation

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  1. Age of Exploration & Isolation Chapter 19.1 Europeans Explore the East

  2. Factors Spur Exploration • Renaissance curiosity about world • GOLD: Desire for new sources of wealth & trade • GLORY: fame & for King & Country • GOD: Missionary impetus to spread Christianity

  3. Europeans Want Spices

  4. New Tools of Exploration

  5. Portugal Leads the Way • Prince Henry “the Navigator” founds school of exploration in 1419 • Sailors surveyed coast of Africa & later India

  6. Bartolomeu Diaz • Reached tip of South Africa in 1488

  7. Vasco da Gama 1st European to sail a direct route to India in 1498

  8. Spanish Claims • 1492:Christopher Columbusdiscovers the Caribbean thinking it was Asia

  9. Columbus’ Journeys

  10. Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 • To keep peace between 2 Catholic nations, the Pope divided the world in ½ based on Spanish & Portuguese claims • Showed European’s disregard for indigenous peoples

  11. Treaty of Tordesillas 1494

  12. Europeans Carve up the East Indies • Following Portugal; other nations seized ports in Africa & Asia • Britain & France enter India • Spain took over Philippines in 1521 • Dutch took over Cape Town & Indonesia

  13. Dutch East India Company • 1st corporation in history, controlled Indonesia • Est. in 1602 after the Dutch freed themselves from Spain • Private company owned by Dutch investors

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