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The Search for Spices

The Search for Spices. Mr. Divett. Exploring the Seas. Trade was going on before Renaissance Greeks Muslim Arabs Vikings It was disrupted by…. The Black Death. One third of Europe’s population died That’s more than 25 million people. Spice Trade. Spices were valuable

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The Search for Spices

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  1. The Search for Spices Mr. Divett

  2. Exploring the Seas • Trade was going on before Renaissance • Greeks • Muslim Arabs • Vikings • It was disrupted by…

  3. The Black Death • One third of Europe’s population died • That’s more than 25 million people

  4. Spice Trade • Spices were valuable • The growing population of Europe led to the need for trade • Most of the spices came from the Moluccas, present day Indonesia • Arab and Italian merchants controlled trade

  5. Exploration • Europeans wanted to find a more direct route to Asia • Prince Henry sponsored Portuguese exploration • Prince Henry wanted to: • Convert Africans to Christianity • Find riches • Find a more direct route to Asia

  6. Exploration • Henry enlisted cartographers, or map makers • Bartholomeu Dias sailed around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 • Vasco da Gama landed on Calcut, India in 1497 • He lost half his crew but became enormously wealthy through trade.

  7. Vasco da Gama

  8. Columbus • Christopher Columbus wanted to get in on the success • He was Italian • He knew the earth was spherical • He underestimated the size of the earth • Portugal refused to sponsor him

  9. Columbus

  10. Sponsorship • Spain gave Columbus a chance • Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored him because they wanted to: • Increase their authority • Strengthen Catholicism • Bring wealth and prestige

  11. Ferdinand and Isabella

  12. Columbus • On August 3, 1492 Columbus set sail • The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria carried them

  13. Columbus • On October 12 Columbus landed in the new world • He cruised around the islands of the Caribbean's • He thought he had had landed in the Indies • This is where the term “Indians” comes from • Later on it was realized that it was an unknown land

  14. Dividing the World • In 1493 Pope Alexander VI set the Line of Demarcation • This gave trading and exploration rights to Spain west of the line, and Portugal east • The line was agreed upon and signed in 1494 in the Treaty of Tordesillas

  15. Naming the New World • Martin Waldseemuller coined the term “America” • The Caribbean islands are now called the “West Indies”

  16. Magellan • Ferdinand Magellan set out to find a direct way to Asia • He was Portuguese • He left on September 20, 1519 from Spain • He cruised the east coast looking for a passage to the Pacific Ocean • They braved storms but eventually found the what came to be known as the Straight of Magellan

  17. Magellan

  18. The Journey of Magellan

  19. Carrying On • Magellan’s crew wanted to turn back after their discovery • Magellan wanted to push on to the Indies • The Pacific Ocean was way larger than he anticipated • It took them four months to get there. • They arrived at the Philippines

  20. Death • Magellan tried to fight some Philippines and was killed • The 18 survivors of his crew returned to Spain • They were the first to circumnavigate the globe, or sail all the way around it

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