The document summarizes the key causes and motivations of the Age of Exploration between 1450-1648. Technological advances in navigation, shipbuilding, and mapmaking enabled more extensive exploration. Motivations included the desire for glory, religious factors like spreading Christianity, and most importantly, economic gain by establishing trade routes and finding resources like gold in the Americas. Advances began with European adoption of Muslim sailing techniques, and influential explorers like Da Gama and Columbus opened new trade routes and accidentally discovered America seeking routes to Asia for trade.
The Age of Exploration. First explorers of the New World and water trade routes to Asia. Includes routes, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, 6-6 SC standard
The Age of Exploration. First explorers of the New World and water trade routes to Asia. Includes routes, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, 6-6 SC standard
The era known as the Age of Exploration, sometimes called the Age of Discovery, officially began in the early 15th century and lasted through the 17th century. The period is characterized as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge.
This presentation covers Virginia SOL USI,4a, which is European exploration. The student will demonstrate knowledge of European explorations in North America and West Africa by describing the motivations for, obstacles to, and accomplishments of the Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English explorations.
The era known as the Age of Exploration, sometimes called the Age of Discovery, officially began in the early 15th century and lasted through the 17th century. The period is characterized as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge.
This presentation covers Virginia SOL USI,4a, which is European exploration. The student will demonstrate knowledge of European explorations in North America and West Africa by describing the motivations for, obstacles to, and accomplishments of the Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English explorations.
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Ren. and Recon. In Red White and Black (Johnson 2-2; Brinkley Chapter 1)
Image: romantic view of Columbus setting foot in the new world
I. Intro Big Themes
II. The world ca. 15th century
III. Portuguese Beginnings
IV. Columbus the 1st Conquistador
America Discovery
Norse occupation of upper Canada during the middle ages
Basque fishermen fishing off of the New England and Upper Canada
Population estimates of 15-50 million of Native American descent in 1492
15th century = 1400s
Looking at the world during the 1400s, with broad brushstrokes laying out some of the rpe conditions for conquest in the hew world.
What were the goals and provisions of the Europeans that instigated them breaking from tradition and setting out to discover.
The real pioneers were the Portuguese, outside of brazil they do not have a large presence in the New World
Big Themes:
Conquest changed everything, most momentous single event that historians can think of. It changed the fortunes of the entire globe.
In the 15th century Europe was emerging from the middle ages, sometimes refered to as the dark ages and as prospering especially in maritime states, such as Genoa where Columbus was born. It was however a sideshow of the economic worlds wealth. Much of the worlds trading systems was being traded across land or hugging the coasts between Europe and the far east. Along the silk roads. Europe lay at the very end of these roads.
By being at the end of the roads Europe was on the periphery. This changed with the age of exploration.
Exploration completely changed the map of the world. What Europeans changed despite the map was to create an Atlantic system of trade and commerce, sometimes referred to as the Triangle Trade. Trade between Europe-Africa-New World (N. and S. America and the Caribbean)
The rise of the west was built on this Atlantic system. The fortunes of Europe over the next 500 years will be laid economically, politically, militarily, etc. in the colonial outposts in the New World.
Effects dramatic in other locations as well.
Africa will export slaves to work vast plantations, mining facilities, as well as other things that were done to produce wealth. The fortunes of Africans thus will be dramatically transformed.
No less dramatic to Native Americans 15-50 million indigenous inhabitants of N. and S. America. It has been estimated that a figure as high as 90% died within a century of Columbus’s ‘discovery.’
The first group that Europeans hope to enslave are N. Americans and some die from overwork, and labor.
Most die due to disease-smallpox, etc.
For peoples of Asia and Middle East will see their fortunes change in particular to that of Europe. Prior to the discoveries the east was the center of the knowledge, wealth and power, with the Middle East as Middle men in the trade routes also benefitting.
With the development of the trade routes these centers of power would diminish
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1. Delaney Caballero <br />Mr. Smith<br />AP World History<br />5 December 2010<br />Causes of the Age of Exploration<br />In the early 1400s, the Europeans began to dominate the world by settling colonies in the Americas, along the coast of Africa, and parts of India and Southeast Asia. This is referred to as the Age of Exploration. The Age was caused by advances in technology and motivated by the desire for glory, religious factors, and, most importantly, economic factors.<br />Advances in technology caused the Age of Exploration. The advances began with contact with the Muslim world their top rate sailing technique. Prince Henry of Portugal was influenced by the Muslims and began a navigation school. Some of the new technological advances were new hulls for sail ships, compasses, cannons on the ships, new types of guns, and mapmaking. A few students of Prince Henry became some of the most influential explorers of the Age. Two examples are Vasco da Gama and Bartholomew Dias. <br />One of the motivations of the Age of Exploration was a desire for fame. This is related to the Renaissance concept of the glorification of human accomplishment. Explorers wanted to leave a legacy behind and have their name known throughout the world. European kingdoms would finance explorers in order to gain political control over an area and gain access to its resources. An example of this is how Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain financed Columbus in his expedition to find a practical trade route to the Orient by going west. <br />Religious factors were one of the motivations behind the Age of Exploration. The explorers took advantage of the locals and, after gaining their trust, they realized that they could spread their version of Christianity throughout the New World. The spreading of the faith to the non-belier became the reasoning behind the Age. This is tied to the Crusades and the Reformation’s desire to spread your national version of Christianity to take hold of an area. <br />The most important motivation behind the Age of Exploration was economic gain. Originally, the European’s wanted a way to bypass the Muslim controlled trade routes to the east and their spices. The Portuguese and Vasco da Gama sailed around the tip of Africa to reach India and opened the all-water trade with the East. The Spanish and Columbus sailed west and accidentally landed in America. In the Americas they discovered gold and other resources never before known the Europeans. <br />The Age of Exploration refers to the period from 1450 to 1648 when the Europeans sailed to the Americas, the coast of Africa, and throughout India and Southeast Asia. Because of the Age of Exploration, the European’s made many more accomplishments. There were many causes and motivations leading to the Age of Exploration. New technological innovations, the desire for glory, the need to spread the faith, and a longing for gold are the most important. <br />