European Explorers

1. Spices unavailable in Europe= high demand
   1. high prices and great profit
2. Muslims and Italians controled it
   1. Italians would buy it from muslims
      1. Then Europeans would buy it from Italians for very high price

1. Spread christianity
2. Crusades= hostility towards muslims

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• Spanish explorer. Was the first european explorer to reach america.

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• Portuguese explorer. Spread christianity to the people of Asia. His motives where: To serve God and his Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do. Ventured down the coast of Africa until he reached the tip. As they arived a storm blew them to the other side but they were too tired to continue and went back to Portugal.

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• Portuguese explorer who explored the east African coast. Found a direct sea route to india. When in India he fills boat out with spices and silk that brought 60 times the cost of the trip.

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• Italian explorer. reached the court of Kublai Khan in china (1275). 

1. Pope Alexander VI made an imaginary line

1. Boat with triangular sails able to sail upwind

1. Astrolabe
   1. Brass circle with carefully adjusted rings marking the degrees
2. Magnetic Compas

1. Conquered the Muslim city of Ceuta
   1. Discovered spices+gold
2. Opened a navigation school

1. Sold spices for 1/5 of the price the Italians where

1. Traded Indian cloth

1. Never made a profit