Age of Exploration

Question 1

Prince Henry

Answer 1

• Prince of Portugal who was a strong supporter of Navigation
• “The Navigator”
• Leads Portuagal into becoming leader of exploration
• Sea faring nation

Question 2

Bartolomeu Dias

Answer 2

• 1488 Portuguese capt. sailed to southern tip of Africa

- Cape of good hope

Question 3

Vasco de Gama

Answer 3

-1498 Portuguese capt. found sea route to India

Question 4

Columbus

Answer 4

• 1492 found west indies for Spain

- discovered new world

Question 5

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 5

• Tensions btw Port. and Spain on who owns new lands
• Agreement of the Pope’s line of demarcation
• Divides Western and Eastern hemisphere
• Spain gets New world while Port. gets tip of brazil and right

Question 6

Trading Outposts

Answer 6

• Port: 1510 persian gulf, arabian sea, spice islands
• Spain:1527 phillipines
• Dutch & England challenged Port.

Question 7

Dutch East India-0o

Answer 7

• Dutch Direct trade with india

- 1619 took spice islands

Question 8

Age of Exploration

Answer 8

-“God, Glory, Gold”
-1400s spur of exploration and world trade
Causes:
1) Crusades 2)Navigation tech. 3)New sea route to India for spices
Impacts:
1)Opens the New World 2)Global trading system 3)China limits European contact