5.01 Review

• Trade (Silk Road) between Europe and Asia was doing well.

• Growing interest in Asian spices in addition to silks & gems.

• Then the Ottomans took control of land routes.

• Travel by land grew expensive & dangerous.​

• New ship designs & new technologies made traveling by sea easier.​

• Portugal

• Spain

• Atlantic Ocean

• Mediterranean Sea

• Cape of Good Hope​

Important People to know

Prince Henry (Portugal)

• known as The Navigator, but sailed very little

• Funded expeditions along African coast & new technologies for ship building and sailing

Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal)

• Led a voyage to find the southern tip of Africa - later named the Cape of Good Hope

Ferdinand & Isabella (Spain)

• Funded Columbus' voyage when Portugal refused to.​​

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Christopher Columbus (Italy)

• ​Want to sail West to get to Asia (Indies)

• When he found land (Bahamas) he named the people Indians because he thought he landed in the Indies.​

• Claimed the land for Spain​

​Amerigo Vespucci (Italy)

• Sailed to the new world (for both Portugal & Spain) after Columbus and documented everything.​

• Mapmakers named the new land Amerigo​