Columbus & Spanish Exploration

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Global Trade Pre-Columbus

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Silk Road/ Asia -> Arab empires -> Italian city-states -> Europe

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Spices of India

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Salt (keeps food fresh)

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Slavery

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Controlled by the Arab merchants. Come from remote areas to avoid runaways.

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Advancing Technology

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• Better sails and ships

  • -Developed by Portugal

  • -Can handle the winds around African Coast

• Better navigation

  • -Astrolabe for longitude and latitude

  • -compass 

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Portugal Extends

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Trade posts on African west coast

-Gold

-Silver

-Slaves

Sugar plantations on the African islands

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Portuguese Exploration Broaders

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Bartolomeu Dias

Vasco da Gama

-Spice islands

-Big $$

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Spanish Unification

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More powerful. Can and want to compete globally

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Spanish Goals

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Trade route to spice islands to compete with Portugal.

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Indirect Discovery

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Vikings

-Landed unknowingly and didn’t settle

Crusaders

-Taught Europeans to desire Asian products

Marco Polo

-Wrote a famous book to spread knowledge of successful travel

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Christopher Columbus

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-Italian seafarer

-Persuades Spanish Monarchs to finance his voyage

-Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

-6 weeks at sea

-Oct 12, 1492 lands at Bahamas