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Search For Spices

Search For Spices . 14-1. Why Spices . European population expanded and demand for traded goods increased Spices most valuable Preserve food Add flavor Make medicines and perfumes. Control of Trade . Arab goods came to Europe through Italian merchants

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Search For Spices

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  1. Search For Spices 14-1

  2. Why Spices • European population expanded and demand for traded goods increased • Spices most valuable • Preserve food • Add flavor • Make medicines and perfumes

  3. Control of Trade • Arab goods came to Europe through Italian merchants • Profitable to get direct route to Asia

  4. Portugal • Prince Henry • Discovered Azores and Madeira • Expanded into North Africa • Convert Africans to Christianity • Finds source of Muslim riches • Easier way to get to Asia

  5. Portugal • Bartholomeu Dias • 1488 rounded southern tip of Africa • Cape of Good Hope – opened way for sea route to Asia • Vasco da Gama • 1497 – Four ships around Good Hope • Reached Calicut • 1502 Treaty that kept Portuguese merchants at Calicut who bought spices when prices were low = Great profit

  6. Spanish Explorers • Christopher Columbus • Italian who sailed for Spain (Ferdinand and Isabella) • Looking for East Indies • Sail west to get there – underestimated how big world was

  7. Columbus • Why Spain? • Rulers wanted to strengthen Catholicism • Expelled all Jews • Lost countless intelligent and wealthy people • Columbus would regain wealth and prestige • Started August 3 reached land October 12 • Landed in Caribbean • Called people Indians (Thought he had reached Indies) • Island becomes known as West Indies

  8. Spanish Explorers • Vasco Nunez de Balboa • 1513 Passageway westward through tropical forests of Panama • Huge body of water – South Sea • Ferdinand Magellan • Looking for way to reach Pacific (Starts Sep. 1519) • Coast of South America looking for bay to Pacific • 1520 southern tip – Strait of Magellan • Emerged into South Sea – Renamed Pacific

  9. Magellan (Continued) • Pushed across Pacific to East Indies • Four months (Thought it would take three weeks) • March 1521 – Philippines • Magellan killed • September 1522 reached Spain • One ship, 18 sailors • First to sail around the world (Circumnavigate) • Magellan is killed

  10. Line of Demarcation and Treaty of Tordesillas

  11. Line of Demarcation and Treaty of Tordesillas • Line drawn by Pope Alexander VI • Spain had trading and exploration rights anywhere west of the line • Portugal had trading and exploration rights anywhere east of the line • Treaty of Tordesillas – outline specific terms

  12. America • Amerigo Vespucci • Italian sea captain who went to Brazil • His descriptions were mapped and labeled “America” • Americas refers to both continents

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