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The West Expands

The West Expands. Exploration and Colonialism in the New World and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Why Leave Home?. Faster water route to Asia To gain access markets for spices and silk Europe had been trading with Asia as early as the Roman Empire Crusades expose Europe to Asia

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The West Expands

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  1. The West Expands Exploration and Colonialism in the New World and the Atlantic Slave Trade

  2. Why Leave Home? • Faster water route to Asia • To gain access markets for spices and silk • Europe had been trading with Asia as early as the Roman Empire • Crusades expose Europe to Asia • Marco Polo first European to reach China • Direct land route to Asia was blocked by the Ottoman Empire • Mediterranean route was monopolized by the Italians (Venice)

  3. Why Leave Home? • Technology • Advances in sailing and navigation made long-distance ocean sailing more feasible • The compass • Astrolabe • More efficient shipbuilding

  4. “To Boldy Go…” • First explorations • Vikings (1000-1100) • Reach Greenland and Newfoundland • Portugal the first European nation to explore the oceans • Prince Henry the Navigator orders exploration of the African coast in the 1400s • Bartolomeu Diaz sails around the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 • Vasco Da Gama reaches India in 1498 • Spain • King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella commission Christopher Columbus to find a route to the Indies • Arrives in what are now the Bahamas an Hispaniola, but he doesn’t know he is in a new continent

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