2. Why Spain and Portugal?
• Both had shipbuilding
and navigation
experience
• Had strong crusading
spirit
• Wanted to convert
Indians to Roman
Catholicism
4. • Prince Henry the Navigator
– Set up a school to train sailors
5. • Bartolomeu Dias
– Proved they could reach the East by sailing around
Africa.
6.
7. • Vasco de Gama
– Rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed up
the east coast of Africa
– Had trouble selling his goods to the Indians
– Finally able to buy spices
– Able to finance 60 more voyages!!
8.
9.
10. • Portugal was first Europeans to come in
contact with China
• Resulted in great wealth
11. • Francis Xavier
– Missionary who
worked in Japan to
convert people to
Roman Catholicism
14. Christopher Columbus
• Portugal wouldn’t finance him
• Went to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of
Spain
• Landed in the Caribbean islands, not India
15.
16.
17. Ferdinand Magellan
• Sailed around the
world
• He died in the
Philippines
• His crew finished
the voyage in three
years
22. Hernando Cortes
• Came in contact with the Aztecs
• Montezuma was their leader
• They believed that the Spanish King was
Quetzalcoatl
• Cortes eventually massacred most of the
Aztecs
26. Francisco Pizarro (pih ZAHR oh)
• Encountered the Incas
• He took the Inca (king),
Atahualpa (ah tuh WAHL puh) captive
• Inca delivered gold and silver for his release
• Pizarro killed him anyway
30. Ch. 7 Sec. 3
Discussion Question
1. How did the Portuguese expand to India and
Southeast Asia, and how did they interact
with the people of these regions?
Editor's Notes
There were stories of sea monsters, deadly heat at the equator and violent storms
Learned new methods and instruments
Rounded the tip of Africa without his realizing it in the middle of a bad storm
Landed on southwest coast of India
Used heavily armed Portuguese ships…to get around Muslim blocks…
Their trade with China eakened the Muslim and Italian monopolies on Chinese goods
Left in August and landed in October
Encountered the Pacific Ocean for the first time…called it Pacific which is Latin for “peace”, because it was so calm
Wrote a book explaining his voyage
Was called the “Dragon” because he attacked and stole the treasures of many Spanish ships with the blessing of Queen Elizabeth
Montezuma showed him the Aztec great wealth
Cortes convinced him that the Spanish king was Quetzalcoatl and demanded that they submit to him and they did
Montezuma urged the Aztecs to submit, and the Aztecs killed him
He destroyed Technochtitlan and build Mexico City over it…Over a temple, he built a Roman Catholic cathedral
Worked his way in the jungle for 6 months and attacked villages along the way
13,000 pounds gold and 26,000 pounds silver
Group of Spaniards stormed Pizarro’s palace and brutally killed him
