3. Proserity In Europe
Scientific advancements
Trade with Far East
Search for new and direct routes to Asia.
Desire to explore new regions.

4. Stategic Location
Located in the Iberian
Peninsula
Near the Mediterranean Sea.
Coasts of Atlantic Ocean.

5.  America was an unknown continent for Europeans.
 Known places for Europeans: they had comercial
trade.
 Europe
 Coasts of Africa
 Asia

6. The world in the 15th Century
Asia
Europe

7.  Contact increased between
 Europe Asia and Africa
They wanted to:
Find Land and riches

8. Africa
Europe
Asia
Unknown

9. Monsters Riches
Extraordinary
creatures

10.  News from merchants and travelers
 Products: porcelain, silk, pearls, prcious metals and
Spices
Add flavor
Medicine
perfume
Preserve meat

11. India
Persia Japan
China
South East Asia:
Spice Islands

12.  Rich merchants
 Progress in navigational technology
 Form comercial trading centers in the

13.  Nautical equipment:
 Safer and more agile ships
 Better maps
 Astronomy world was a sphere, not flat
 Natutical maps : -navegegation routes
-Maps
-Costal cities
 Scienctis studied The behaviour of the winds
 New ships: The caravel
 Scientific advancements -Astrolabe
 -Compass