Age of Exploration

Portugal

Searching for Gold, Spices, etc, along African coast

Prince Henry the Navigator

Bartholomew Diaz- Portuguese explorer who rounds the Cape of Good Hope, reached the Indian Ocean by sea

Vasco De Gama- reaches India by sea, SPICES

Gold, God, Glory

Spain

The Reconquista- reconquering spain

Ferdinand and Isabella- Catholic Monarchs

Christopher Columbus- in 1492 he sailed the ocean blue and found A WHOLE NEWWW WORLDDD

Line of Demarcation (1494) through the Treaty of Tordesillas- split territory of New World between Spain and Portugal

Magellan (his crew) circumnavigated the globe

Spanish Galleon= massive ships that carry more gold and people

World=connected

Columbian Exchange- exchange of people, crops, livestock, ideas, and diseases between old and new world

Smallpox decimates native population

Cash Crops- sugar, coffee, tobacco

Mercantilism- Economic based on the idea that there is fixed wealth int he world, and so in order to maximize profits, one must maximize exports and limit imports (colonies help)

Triangular Trade- Europe to Africa to New World- allows Columbian Exchange to occur