The Age Of Exploration and Discovery

The Age Of Exploration and Discovery

1. The period between 1450 and 1650 was an important time for exploration and discovery by europeons

   • Why people wanted new trade routes?
     • Safer and cheaper trade
     • Greed power and glory
     • Religion
     • The renaissance spirit
   • What made voyages possible?
     • Square sails
     • Triangular lateen sails
     • Clinker built
     • Large rudders
     • New aids to navigation
       • Compass
       • Log & Line
       • astrolabe /quadrant
       • portolan charts
       • better sea maps
   • The Portuguese sail east to India
     • Prince Henry
       • Never went on Voyage himself.
       • Interested in ships and voyage so became known as Prince Henry the Navigator.
       • Son of King John of Portugal.
       • setup a school of navigation at Sages in Portugal.
       • died in 1460
     • Barholm Diaz
       • In 1487, reached a place he called Cape of Storms and traveled beyond the point of southern tip of Africa.
       • Renamed Cape of storms to Cape of good hope.
     • Vasco da Gama
       • In Kenya, he got an Arab pilot to guide his three ships to Calicut in India.
       • 10 years after after Barholm Diaz, Vasco da Gam travelled around Africa as far as Malindi present day Kenya.
       • Returned to Portugal with great quantities of cloves, cinnamon, rubies and many kinds of precious stones.
       • The Portuguese ships now began to guard this new trade route.
       • The Portuguese had now discovered a new, profitable and safe trade route to India.
   • Columbus goes west
     • He could discover a sea route by to China and India by sailing West into the Atlantic ocean.
     • Italian
     • 7 years of pleading, Columbus finally persuaded king

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