Recap Lesson: Europeans Overseas

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World History!

By: Mr. Ramos

​Following the Black Plague, Europe reunited with Moluccas, the Spice Island...for spices.

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Europeans be Sailing!

Technology Improved!

• Cartographers - Map makers made more accurate maps.

• Astrolabe - Helped the Arabs determine latitude while at sea.

• Portuguese Caravel - Square sails, instead of triangular sails.

• European ships carried better cannons!

• Captured Cueta, in Northern Africa.

• Converted Muslims to Christianity

• Discovered a new Trade Route

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Vini, Vidi, Vici ...

Prince Henry, The Navigator

1394 - 1460

R.I.P.

Henry the Navigator

Continued Henry's wishes!

• Dias finds Calcutta, Western India

• da Gama stays in West Africa.

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Bartholomeu Dias & Vasco da Gama

"In fourteen hundred ninety-two (1492)
Columbus sailed the ocean blue."

• Emma Lazarus

The Treaty of Tordesillas

​Line of Demarcation - A line that divides!

Spain and Portugal agreed to split territory on the map.

• On the WEST of 370 Meridian belonged to Spain.

• On the EAST of 370 Meridian belonged to Portugal.

• In the search for a "Northwest Passage", Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Spain, with 5 ships, in September 1519

• 1521, Magellan dies in the Philippines.

• 1522, one last ship returns to Spain.

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Magellan Circumnavigates the World!

• 1652, Dutch settlers establish Cape Town in southern Africa, to supply passing ships.

• The Boers, Dutch farmers, fought, killed, and converted natives overtime in Cape Town.

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Europe spreads in Africa!

​Next Time!

SPOILER ALERT!

Portugal Builds an EMPIRE in Asia!