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Title: Europeans Set Sail


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Europeans Set Sail
  • Chapter 2 Section 1

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I. Vikings
  • In Europe (before 1000s)
  • From Denmark, Norway, Sweden
  • Superior ships for sailing oceans
  • Had a vast trade network
  • Also raided many European nations!
  • Moving West
  • Settled in Iceland around 874 AD
  • About 100 years later settled in Greenland
  • Around 1000 reached present day Canada
  • Set up small villages
  • Not 100 sure why Vikings left region

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II. Riches in Asia
  • What Europeans Wanted
  • Spices
  • Bypass expensive, dangerous land routes
  • Looked for water route
  • Religion
  • Spread Christianity to Asia (India and China)
  • Used as a reason for seeking spices as well!

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II. Riches in Asia (cont.)
  • Advances in Technology
  • Astrolabe navigate ships by the stars
  • Caravels
  • Ships that used triangular sails
  • Could sail against the wind

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III. Sea Route to Asia
  • Portugal sent explorers south
  • Tried to go around Africa
  • Bartolomeu Dias made it to Cape of Good Hope
    (1488)
  • Vasco de Gama sailed around to India (1497)
  • Impact
  • Portugal became very wealthy
  • Began the Atlantic slave trade
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