Introduction to Galleon

By: Mrs. Ocampo

Middle Ages (Dark Ages)

Crusades-200 Year Holy War

Marco Polo

Age of Exploration

The Middle Ages476-1000 AD

• AKA Dark Ages• Hard Life• Feudal System• Knights, kings, like Robin Hood• Plain Food *• Clothes were coarse and uncomfortable (flax and wool)*• Houses/furniture put together crudely*• Many people couldn’t read or write• Bible was #1 along with all Holy Places*

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Crusades

• 11th Century • Pilgrimages to Palestine- Holy Land• War-like Turks ruled the holy land and used

churches for stables-Moslems• Stopped pilgrimages and began the 200 years

War• Kings were angry- THIS MEANS WAR!!!

Pilgrimage to Holy Land

Turks Stopped Them

Holy Land taken over by Turks

Result of Crusades

• Christian people loved seeing the beautiful buildings

• Shopped in the marketplaces of Constantinople.• Bought- silk,teas, woven cottons, spices*• Saw pearls, gems, rubies, other precious stones*• Ate yummy spicy food from East Indies*• Tea from China and wine from Arabia• Rugs and Carpets from Arabia

SHOPPING

Silk and soft cottonsConstantinople and Palestine

Pearls, diamonds, rubies,And other precious stones

Tea from China

Wine from Arabia

Rugs from Persia

Ivory from Africa

Seeing the Good Life

• Christians came back to Europe wanting MORE GOOD STUFF.

• Out with the bland food and scratchy clothing in with the Fancy Stuff!

I WANT MORE!

Marco Polo

• Left Italy for long voyage East• Family of jewel merchants• Trade with Cathay• Served Kublai Khan- ruler of Cathay for 24 years• Wrote a book- think “catalog of goods”, palaces with

roofs of gold• TRADE BEGAN!!! • WE WANT MORE!!!

The Book of the Marvels of the World by Marco Polo

How do we get the Good Stuff to Europe?

• Italy very busy port across Mediterranean Sea• Deserts- people traveled through the Middle

East by camel – partly by sea and land• Began looking for a new route to Far East-

China and India……• AGE OF EXPLORATION!!!!

TRAVEL BY SEA

• Henry the Navigator- build an observatory- School for Navigators, sent sailor around coast of Africa

• Sailors didn’t move away from sight of land• Used sun and stars to navigate (astrolabe)• Astolabe- tells how far you are from the equator.• Dias-sailed further down south coast of Africa, stormy

seas, reached southern tip – Cape of Storms• King John changed to Cape of Good Hope- thought

storms would scare sailors• Pillar of stone (place a stone for as far as you travel….

Bartholomeu Dias

Cape of Storms

Name Change-Cape of Good Hope

COLUMBUS’ Voyage begins….• Left from Spain• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

supported his dream• Town of Palos supplied his ship and then was punished for helping him. They smuggled goods.• Santa Maria and Pinta was stolen.• 88 seamen were forced on the ship across the Sea of Darkness.

Omen of Doom• Rudder broke on Pinta while at sea• At Canary Islands- had to change lateen sails

(triangle) to square sails on Nina• Portugese Man-of-War were hunting them down.• As he passed last island, it exploded with a violent

volcanic eruptions.• Broken compass, Sargasso Sea (weeds)

Columbus Demise

• 1492 -70 Days to San Salvador- (means Holy Savior)in Bahamas• Continued to think he reached Asia, calling native

people Indians (from India)• Actually discovered the Americas• Vasco de Gama actually found route to Far East• Inspired explorers to come to Americas in search of

gold• Age of Exploration has begun!!