The First Global Age:

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Chapter 15

• The First Global Age
• Europe and Asia 1415 - 1796

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Section 1 The Search for Spices

• I. Europeans Explore the Seas

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I. Europeans Explore the Seas

• The Crusades introduced Europeans to many
• luxury goods from Asia

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I. Europeans Explore the Seas

• In the 1200s and 1300s, goods came to
• Europe along Mongol trade routes

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A. Motives

• Trade was disrupted by the Black Death and
• the breakup of the Mongol Empire

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A. Motives

• By the 1400s, Muslims and Italians controlled
• trade between Asia and Europe

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A. Motives

• The chief source of spices was the Moluccas,
• also called the Spice Islands

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A. Motives

• Portugal and Spain sought a route to bypassed
• the Mediterranean

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B Improved Technology

• Improvements resulted in better navigational
• tools and larger ships

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II. Portugal Sails Eastward

• During the 1400s, Portugal led the way in
• exploration

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A. Mapping the African Coast

• Prince Henry (Henry the Navigator) hoped to
• expand Christianity and find African gold

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A. Mapping the African Coast

• Henry gathered experts who redesigned ships,
• prepared maps, and trained crews for long
• voyages

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A. Mapping the African Coast

• In 1488, Bartholomeu Dias rounded the
• southern tip of Africa and opened a route to Asia

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B. On to India

• In 1497, Vasco da Gama led a 10-month
• voyage and reached Calicut, India

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B. On to India

• Da Gama acquired a cargo of spices that he
• sold at a profit of 3,000 percent

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B. On to India

• The Portuguese seized key ports and created
• a vast trading empire

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III. Columbus Sails to the West

• Christopher Columbus believed he could
• reach the Indies by sailing west across the
• Atlantic

Salvador Dali The Dream Of Christopher Columbus
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A. Voyages of Columbus

• From Spain, Columbus sailed west on August
• 3, 1492, with the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa
• Maria

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A. Voyages of Columbus

• On October 12, Columbus reached the
• Caribbean and spent several months cruising
• the islands

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B. Naming the "New World"

• In 1507, a German cartographer read about the
  "New World" written by Amerigo Vespucci and
  labeled the region America

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B. Naming the "New World"

• The islands Columbus explored in the Caribbean
  became known as the West Indies

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IV. The Search Continues

• Europeans continued to seek new routes around or
  through the Americas

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IV. The Search Continues

• In 1513, Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spain) crossed
  Panama and reached the Pacific

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IV. The Search Continues

• In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan charted a passage
  that became known as the Strait of Magellan

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IV. The Search Continues

• In March 1521, Magellan was killed by natives in
  the Philippines

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IV. The Search Continues

• On September 8,1522, the crew was hailed as the
  first to circumnavigate the world

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IV. The Search Continues

• Other Europeans searched the coast of North
  America for the Northwest Passage

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IV. The Search Continues

• Explorers included John Cabot (England) Jacques
  Cartier (France) and Henry Hudson (Dutch)

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IV. The Search Continues

• The European age of exploration set off a period
  of conflict between Europe and other civilizations

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For Gold, God and Glory Igor V. Babailov
Dedicated to the great discoveries of the new
worlds