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The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration. Trade With Asia. Silks and Spices - Europeans wanted to trade with Asia, especially China and India. Since the Middle Ages Europeans have being and have wanted to trade with China. Silk Road closed. In 1453, the Silk Road came to a screeching halt for European Traders.

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The Age of Exploration

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  1. The Age of Exploration

  2. Trade With Asia Silks and Spices- Europeans wanted to trade with Asia, especially China and India.Since the Middle Ages Europeans have being and have wanted to trade with China.

  3. Silk Road closed In 1453, the Silk Road came to a screeching halt for European Traders. The Ottoman Turks Captured Constantinople. The land route to Asia was closed to the Europeans.

  4. Sea Route Possible Technology- Thanks to technology, the Europeans could make ocean voyages 1) The Caravel Ship 2) The Magnetic compass 3) The astrolabe determined latitude.

  5. Christopher Columbus First Voyage By Robert McCormack

  6. Columbus • Christopher Columbus sailed westward to reach Asia. Instead he landed in the Americas*. Columbus was significant for two major reasons: He landed on two continents that Europe did not know existed. He was the first person to establish a long-term relationship between Europe and the Americas. The sharing of goods and ideas between the New World and the Old World is known as the Columbian Exchange.

  7. First Voyage

  8. Amerigo Vespucci Sam Mandelman

  9. Two continents • The two continents Vespucci traveled was from Europe to South America.

  10. New World • Vespucci believed he found India but he didn’t. • He discovered America and called the people “indians” because he thought he discovered india. • He named the land America after his first name Amergo. • North and South America are the two continents.

  11. Map of Vespucci voyage

  12. Ferdinand Magellan By: Eric Lohsen

  13. Important places that Magellan passed 1. Sanlucar de barrameda 2. Canary islands 3. Cape verde islands 4. Santa lucia bay 5. Rio de solis 6. Puerto san julian 7. Ladrones islands 8. Homonhon 9. Limasawa 10. Cebu 11. Palawan 12. Brunei 13. Tidore 14. Ambon islands 15. Timore 16. Cape of good hope

  14. Information • Magellan started his voyage in Portugal in the year 1519, he was also the first to circumnavigate the globe. • He went around the Horn (southern tip of south America), through the straight of Magellan. Then across the Pacific ocean • He also named the Pacific Ocean • When he died on the trip, 18 members of his crew finished the voyage

  15. It’s time for Animaniacs!!!

  16. Hernan Cortez Pedro Gil12/19/12

  17. 1519- Cortez sailed sailed to mexico and conquered the Aztecs. His victory opened North America to spanish rule

  18. Aftermath After he conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico, he stole their silver and gold and had it sent back to Spain. He also took some natives and made them slaves after almost killing all of them. He was known as a hero in his country.

  19. Background Information Born: 1485, Medelin Died: December 2, 1547, Castilleja de la Cuesta Nationality: Spanish Children: 2 Books: 5 Letters

  20. That’s My Presentation on Hernan Cortez

  21. PIZARRO BY: ERIC FARNHAGEN

  22. HIS VOYAGE!

  23. Pizarro Pizarro sail to Peru and conquer the Inca. His conquest of Peru opened South America to Spanish Rule.

  24. Pizarro Conquered Inca Empire in the Andes Mountain of Peru. Sent Gold and Silver back to Spain.

  25. Jacques Cartier By Katie Stern

  26. John Cartier • John Cartier was from France • In 1535 he sailed up the St. Lawrence River to Montreal, Canada • He claimed that Canada belonged to France • He sailed the waterway that connects the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean

  27. The results of age of exploration • Europe • Made Europe rich • Focused on trading across the Atlantic • Spain controlled the Atlantic Ocean • The treaty of Tordesillas was the pope in 1494 gave Latin America to Spain, Brazil, Africa, and Asia to Portugal • Cartography- Mapmakers made new maps

  28. Americans Columbian Exchange- trade between Europe and the Americans Epidemics- Native people died of Europeans diseases

  29. Africa The Atlantic slave trade-The Europeans enslaved African Americans to work in America

  30. Asia Trading Posts- The Portuguese set up trading in Africa and Asia

  31. The World Imperialism- The Europeans power over Asia, Africa, and the Americans Colonialism- Each had an empire of colonies. Each took on a culture of the mother country The Commercial Revolution- Mercantilism is government controlled the foreign trade of the importance of the military security of the country

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