HISPANIZATION Flashcards
Age of Exploration
15th to 17th century
terra incognita
unknown lands
why explore?
Mercantilism/ Bullionism Spices Catholicism Closing Silk Road Renaissance Travel Accounts Banking Families
Mercantilism/ Bullionism
gold & silver = riches
more gold
Spices
flavor
preservation
Catholicism
Political agenda
Muslim grudge- formerly Moorish Spain
against Luther’s counter-reformation
Closing Silk Road
New route Europe to Asia
Ottoman Empire won. Mehmed the conqueror closed off, huge tax except Venetians
Renaissance
Cultural and Scientific awakening
compasses
moveable printing press = maps available
Travel Accounts
Marco Polo- “get back gold from China”
Banking Families
De Medici
Fugger
financed expeditions for big returns
Reconquista Process
reclaim Moorish Spain
ended w/ Fall of Granada
Prince Henry, the navigator
funded explorations
navigation schools
Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu DIAZ
Calicut India
Vasco de Gama
Pope Alexander VI
intervened in SPN v PRTGL
proposed Inter Caetera