Age of Exploration &
Isolation
Chapter 19.1
Europeans Explore the East
Factors Spur Exploration
►Renaissance
curiosity about world
►GOLD:
Desire for new sources of
wealth & trade
►GLORY:
►GOD:
fame & for King & Country
Missionary impetus to spread
Christianity
Europeans Want
Spices
New Tools of Exploration
Portugal Leads the Way
Henry “the Navigator”
founds school of exploration in
1419
►Prince
►Sailors
surveyed coast of Africa &
later India
Bartolomeu
Diaz
►Reached
tip of
South
Africa in
1488
Vasco da Gama
1st European to sail a direct route
to India in 1498
Spanish Claims
►1492:
Christopher Columbus
discovers the Caribbean thinking
it was Asia
Columbus’ Journeys
Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
►To
keep peace between 2
Catholic nations, the Pope
divided the world in ½ based on
Spanish & Portuguese claims
►Showed
European’s disregard for
indigenous peoples
Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
Europeans Carve up the East
Indies
►Following
Portugal; other
nations seized ports in Africa &
Asia
 Britain & France enter India
 Spain took over Philippines in 1521
 Dutch took over Cape Town &
Indonesia
Dutch East India Company
►1st
corporation in history, controlled
Indonesia
►Est.
in 1602 after the Dutch freed
themselves from Spain
►Private
company owned by Dutch
investors