Europeans Explore the East

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Europeans Explore the East

• God
• Gold Glory

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Turks Ottomans
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What is the Problem for Europe and the West with
the expansion of the Ottoman Empire?
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Search for New Trade RoutesDue to the Ottoman
Turks

• Why go?
• God- spread Christianity to non-Christians
• Gold- get rich from items found in Asia
• Spices, silk, ect.
• Glory- Pride for and from your country
• Portugal, Spain, England, France, Netherlands
• HOW? - New technology New Information
• Compass, sailing boats (caravel), astrolab

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Portugal

• Prince Henry-
• Conquered parts of N. Africa found gold, silver
  and spices
• Founded a navigation school
• Determined to find a route to Asia
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Spread Christianity
• First to go around S. Africas tip, Cape of Good
  Hope
• Vasco da Gama
• Followed Diass path, but made it to India
• Found the direct sea route to India

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Spain

• Christopher Columbus-
• An Italian sailor wishing to find India/China
• Spain sponsored him (Ferdinand Isabella)
• Discovered? the Americas
• Cortes Pizarro
• - Cortes conquers the Aztecs How?
• - Pizarro conquers the Inca How?
• Treaty of Tordesilla-
• Tensions were on the rise between Portugal and
  Spain
• Pope Alexander VI suggested a Line of Demarcation
• A line that ran north and south in the middle of
  the Atlantic Ocean. All the land west belonged to
  Spain and all the land east belonged to Portugal
• They both signed

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Here Come the Northern Europeans.

• The fight for the Indian Ocean
• Dutch (Netherlands)-
• Dutch were much stronger and richer and gained
  control of much of the valuable Asian trade from
  Portugal. (Dutch East India Company)
• England/France- Last to join in the race for
  expansion
• English-Fought with the Dutch and Portuguese to
  have dominance over the Asian trade - British
  East India Company
• England and France quickly gain control of
  American and Asian trade by the mid-eighteenth
  century.
• The Seven Years War (1756 1763) Britain is
  dominant in North America and Asia (India), by
  end of 18th century.