Essential Question: How are the Crusades linked to the Age of Exploration?

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

Background:● Crusaders brought

goods home that they purchased in Middle Eastern markets.

-Spices, silk, foods never seen by Europeans

● Many people in Europe demanded more of those goods.

THE AGE OF EXPLORATIONDevelopment of Trade routes to Middle East

● In response to European demand for goods…○ Merchants in the northern Italian cities of: Pisa,

Venice, Genoa and Florence established 1st new trade routes to Middle East

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION● Merchants from these Italian

cities amassed great amounts of wealth due to control of trade routes

● Kings and Queens of Europe desired their own trade routes and hired brave men to discover them...hence the Age of Exploration

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

• Countries began to explore as a way to increase trade and to spread Christianity

• there were developments in technology that helped; maps, compass, lateen sail

Prince Henry the Navigator

Patron on NavalExpeditions

Bartholomeu Dias

• In 1488 he sailed around the Cape of Good Hope

VASCO DaGAMA

• He was the first to sail to India

• Set up a Portuguese trade empire

• 1510 Goa became the capital of Portuguese colonies in Asia

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

• He was one of the earliest to explore to the west

• in 1492 he landed in the West Indies

• He died believing he had reached India

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• He was the first to sail around South America

• His crew made it around the world

MAGELLAN’S CREW ALSO DISCOVERED ……..

A ‘CAMEL’ WITHOUT HUMPS …..

A BLACK ‘GOOSE’ WHICH HAD TO BE SKINNED INSTEAD OF PLUCKED….

A ‘SEAWOLF’ WITH THE HEAD OF A CALF….

THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS

NEED FOR AN INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE

Negative results of exploration

• Smallpox wiped out entire tribes• Europeans introduced alcohol to the natives

(they have no tolerance for it)• Took over lands• Changed people’s way of life

Positive results of trade

• People became wealthy due to trade• port cities grew in importance and wealth;

the money acquired by trade helped fund the Renaissance

• trade with colonies brought raw materials needed for the Industrial Revolution

• Matteo Ricci and other missionaries spread Christianity