Why Explore

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Why Explore?

• European Motives for Exploration of the East

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Gold

• Crusades
• Introduced new products
• Spices such as nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, and
  pepper
• Silk
• Creates a high demand

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Gold

• Trade Routes
• Italians and Muslims control trade from Asia to
  Europe
• European merchants and monarchs push for direct
  routes to Asia

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Spice Trade Routes
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God

• Spread Christianity
• Fueled by hostility from the Crusades
• Mission to convert non-Christians

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to serve God and His Majesty, to give light to
those who were in darkness and to grow rich as
all men desire to do.-Bartolomeu Dias
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Technology Makes it Possible

• Caravel
• New ship design
• Sturdier
• Could sail against the wind

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• Astrolabe
• Muslim invention
• Could track how north or south of the equator a
  sailor was

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• Compass
• Chinese invention
• Could track direction using the magnetic poles

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Portugal Comes in First!

• Location
• Strong government support
• Prince Henry
• Strong desire to explore
• Founded a navigation school

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