European Exploration
Chapter 3: European Exploration and Colonization
Trade Route to Asia in the 1400s
European Trade With Asia
Traders - people who get wealth by buying items from a group of people at a low price and selling those things to other people at higher prices.
European countries use trade to gain wealth
The stronger countries in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s England, Spain, France and Portugal.
Kings and queens wanted to gain wealth - to build larger armies and navies to dominate other countries.
Europe wants to trade with Asia
A trader would want to buy items in Asia and sell them in
Europe to make a lot of money by selling luxuries (silks, carpets, & jewels) that were not available in Europe.
Muslims controlled land routes to Asia
Land routes - the roads and trails people traveled to get from one place to another.
Muslims - people who controlled the land routes between
Europe and Asia.
European traders had to solve their problem with Muslimcontrolled land - going by sea around Muslim-controlled land. Finding a sea route to Asia
Two problems sailors faced before the 1400s were a. They did not have good ways of knowing where they were if they got beyond sight of land.
b. The maps were poor and their ships were too slow to make long voyages.
Inventions help sailors
The invention of the astrolabe and the caravel - sailors travel faster, farther, and more safely.
The Early Explorers
Trade route - the way traders go to reach a market.
Market - a place to buy and sell products.
Time when Christopher Columbus began his exploration - in
1492.
Time when Ferdinand Magellan began his exploration - in
1519.
The Spanish Sail West
Columbus' belief that made him think he could sail west to find Asia - the earth was round.
Columbus did not know when he sailed west to find Asia the earth was much bigger than he thought.
Columbus called the Native Americans Indians - he thought he really had reached the East Indies.
The effect of Columbus'
Trade Route to Asia in the 1400s
European Trade With Asia
Traders - people who get wealth by buying items from a group of people at a low price and selling those things to other people at higher prices.
European countries use trade to gain wealth
The stronger countries in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s England, Spain, France and Portugal.
Kings and queens wanted to gain wealth - to build larger armies and navies to dominate other countries.
Europe wants to trade with Asia
A trader would want to buy items in Asia and sell them in
Europe to make a lot of money by selling luxuries (silks, carpets, & jewels) that were not available in Europe.
Muslims controlled land routes to Asia
Land routes - the roads and trails people traveled to get from one place to another.
Muslims - people who controlled the land routes between
Europe and Asia.
European traders had to solve their problem with Muslimcontrolled land - going by sea around Muslim-controlled land. Finding a sea route to Asia
Two problems sailors faced before the 1400s were a. They did not have good ways of knowing where they were if they got beyond sight of land.
b. The maps were poor and their ships were too slow to make long voyages.
Inventions help sailors
The invention of the astrolabe and the caravel - sailors travel faster, farther, and more safely.
The Early Explorers
Trade route - the way traders go to reach a market.
Market - a place to buy and sell products.
Time when Christopher Columbus began his exploration - in
1492.
Time when Ferdinand Magellan began his exploration - in
1519.
The Spanish Sail West
Columbus' belief that made him think he could sail west to find Asia - the earth was round.
Columbus did not know when he sailed west to find Asia the earth was much bigger than he thought.
Columbus called the Native Americans Indians - he thought he really had reached the East Indies.
The effect of Columbus'