The New Age

Of Discovery

Lay Investiture

Conquistadores

Indulgences

Secular

Inquisition Latin America

Renaissance Mesoamerica

Exploration

Predestination

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What did the Renaissance Encourage? ADVENTURE & CURIOSITY

What Motivate Europeans to Explore? GOD, GLORY, and GOLD

What did Europeans want from Asia? SPICES & LUXURY GOODS

(Silk, Pearls, Perfumes, Tea, Colored Dye)

Who controlled the East – West Trade? MUSLIMS and ITALIANS (Due to the Results of the Crusades)

What made new Exploration Possible? ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY (Acquired from Arab Merchant Sailors)

What did Prince Henry create to promote

European Exploration?

NAVIGATION SCHOOL (Not Technically a School)

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What kind of Professionals Gathered at the New Navigation School?

1. MAPMAKERS 2. INSTRUMENT MAKERS

3. SHIPBUILDERS 4. SCIENTISTS 5. SEA CAPTAINS

What New Developments Improved Sailing?

1. CARAVEL

A New type of Ship Which Used

2. TRIANGULAR SAILS

3. SHALLOW DRAFT HULL

Sextant

Compass Rudder

Astrolabe

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What two Nation led the New Explorations? PORTUGAL & SPAIN

What Agreement divided the World in Half?

The TREATY of TORDESILLAS (Based on earlier solution by Pope Alexander)

EAST INDIES TRADING CO

What New Organizations Dominated the New Trade?

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FAMOUS EXPLORERS DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

Italian Explorer who’s Book described his trip to China

MARCO POLO

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FAMOUS EXPLORERS DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

“GOD, GLORY, & GOLD” Were this Explorer’s Words Describing the Motives for European Exploration

BARTOLOMEU DIAS (From Portugal)

Portugal’s most Enthusiastic Supporter of Exploration

PRINCE HENRY (The Navigator)

First Portuguese Explorer to Successfully Sail around Africa to

the Coast of India

VASCO da GAMA

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FAMOUS EXPLORERS DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

Portuguese Explorer who died leading the First Attempt to Sail Around (Circumnavigate) the World

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

A German Mapmakers actually named the New World after this Italian Sailor

AMERIGO VESPUCCI

(Who spotted the Continent during

his first voyage with Cabral)

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FAMOUS EXPLORERS DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

Spanish Conquistador who led the Successful Conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico

HERNAN CORTEZ (1519 – 1522)

Spanish Conquistador who led the Successful Conquest of the Incan

Empire in South America

FRANCISCO PIZARRO (1524 – 1532)

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Colonization (Legend)

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