AGE OF EXPLORATION 1)

AGE OF EXPLORATION 1)

1. CAUSES

   • Influence of Renaissance
   • New trade routes
   • Marco Polo
   • wealth for countries
   • wealth for explorers
   • religion

2. SHIPS AND NAVIGATION

   • Caravels
     • lateen and square sail
     • Clinker built
     • rudder
   • Compass
   • quadrant
   • quadrant
   • astrolabe
   • cross-staff
   • maps
   • log and line
   • lead and line
   • logbook

3. PORTUGESE VOYAGES

   • CAUSES
     • religion
     • Prester John
     • trade
     • Prince Henry the Navigator
       • school for navigation
         • Sagres
         • voyages along the African coast
         • padroa (pillar)
   • DIAZ
     • CAPE of GOOD HOPE
   • DA GAMMA
     • INDIA
   • RESULTS
     • Portugese empire
     • spred of culture
   • VOYAGE OF MAGELLAN
     • el Paso
     • Spice islands in Spanish half?
       • Spice islands in Portuguese half
     • Charles V
     • five ships
     • governor and profits
     • Seville
     • Canary islands
     • south America
       • El Paso
       • straits of Magellan
     • Pacific ocean
     • scurvy, death
     • Philippine islands
       • death of Magellan
         • del Cano to Spain
     • 1st complete voyage, world round

4. VOYAGE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

   • Genoa, Italy (born and raised)
   • REASONS
     • world round
     • world smaller
     • go west to get to East
     • religion
   • Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored Columbus
     • 3 ships
       • Sancta Maria
       • Nina
       • Pinta
   • New title: ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA
   • Palos
   • Canary islands
   • 2 log book
   • San Salvidor
   • Cuba
   • Hipspaniola
   • La Navidad
   • RESULTS
     • Further voyages
     • settelers
     • sugar cane
     • cruelty to the natives
     • New world called AMERICA, after Amerigo Vespucci
     • Treaty of Tordesillas

5. CONQUISTADORS

   • P.I.P.
     • Pizarro Incas Peru
       • Ruler: Atahualpa
         • captured by the Spanish
           • room full of gold and silver
         • killed
       • Capital: Cuzco
         • captured (and empire)
       • gold and silver mines
       • slave labour
   • C.A.M.
     • Cortes Aztecs Mexico
       • Mistaken Aztec God
       • Capital: Tenochtitlan
       • ruler: Montezuma
       • conflict
       • Cortez captured capital and empire
         • Colonisation
           • New Spain

6. RESULTS

   • geographical knowledge
   • decay of empires
   • rise of European empires
   • decline of Mediterranean; rise of Atlantic
   • spread of Christianity
   • slavery
   • new foods