Age Of Discovery- Columbian Exchange

Mrs. Craig

CannonGalley to caravelManpower to wind power Magnetic compassAstrolabeNocturnalMaps!!!

Technological improvements

Gold, God, and Glory!!! New idea of man discovering the world

around him Spices “keeping up with the Jones…ah the Moors” Maybe --- spreading Christianity! Bottom line---- WEALTH (to all who

ventured)

Motives

Spain- Isabella hated to lose Portugal- first on the exploration kick with

Henry the Navigator How to break up the competition??? Enter the

POPE!!! Pope Alexander VI (aka Borgia) grants all

territory south and west in the Atlantic to Spain

Treaty of Tordesilla(1493) moves the papal line of demarcation west to give Portugal ---Brazil!!!

Rivalry on the Iberian Peninsula

Bartholomew Diaz-Cape of Good Hope(Africa) Columbus- to India but runs aground in NA De Gama – does get to India by going east Cabot – to NA – Nova Scotia, Newfoundland Cabral- to Brazil Balboa – to Pacific from Panama Magellan- goes ‘round the world Cortes- conquers Aztecs and Mexico Pizzaro- conquers Incas and Peru Portuguese- to Japan and Macao Raleigh- attempts colony Roanoke Island, NC

Major Explorers

From Old World to New– migration of people, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, sugar cane, small pox, wheat, grapevines, olive trees

From New World to Old- corn, white potatoes, beans, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, and syphilis

Columbian Exchange

In flux of precious metals- gold and silver Populatin increase Price revolution Inflation Textile industry hurt

Golden Century of Spain???