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The Age Of Exploration and Discovery
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The mind map of age of exploration
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voyage
colonial empires
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The Age Of Exploration and Discovery
The period between 1450 and 1650 was an important time for exploration and discovery by europeons
Why people wanted new trade routes?
Safer and cheaper trade
Greed power and glory
Religion
The renaissance spirit
What made voyages possible?
Square sails
Triangular lateen sails
Clinker built
Large rudders
New aids to navigation
Compass
Log & Line
astrolabe /quadrant
portolan charts
better sea maps
The Portuguese sail east to India
Prince Henry
Never went on Voyage himself.
Interested in ships and voyage so became known as Prince Henry the Navigator.
Son of King John of Portugal.
setup a school of navigation at Sages in Portugal.
died in 1460
Barholm Diaz
In 1487, reached a place he called Cape of Storms and traveled beyond the point of southern tip of Africa.
Renamed Cape of storms to Cape of good hope.
Vasco da Gama
In Kenya, he got an Arab pilot to guide his three ships to Calicut in India.
10 years after after Barholm Diaz, Vasco da Gam travelled around Africa as far as Malindi present day Kenya.
Returned to Portugal with great quantities of cloves, cinnamon, rubies and many kinds of precious stones.
The Portuguese ships now began to guard this new trade route.
The Portuguese had now discovered a new, profitable and safe trade route to India.
Columbus goes west
He could discover a sea route by to China and India by sailing West into the Atlantic ocean.
Italian
7 years of pleading, Columbus finally persuaded king
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