The Age of Exploration: Lesson 2

Explored the African coast

Established trading posts

Invented the printing press

Developed new sailing techniques

Reached India by sea

Established spice trade route

Discovered Brazil

Claimed Brazil for Portugal

Bartolomeu Dias

Vasco da Gama

Pedro Álvares Cabral

Ferdinand Magellan

It shifted trade dominance from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, fueling European competition for colonies.

It caused Spain to abandon further exploration in favor of strengthening its alliances in Europe especially with Portugal.

t limited European contact with the Americas to only Spanish expeditions for the next century.

It ensured peaceful relations between Spain and all indigenous peoples in the Americas.

To divide the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal

To establish trading routes between Europe and Asia

To end the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire

To create the Viceroyalty of Peru

It prevented Spain and Portugal from establishing overseas colonies.
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It created the foundation for Spanish America and Portuguese Brazil

It forced both nations to abandon exploration in the New World.

It led other European nations to immediately accept the division of territory.

Strategic alliances with local tribes

Superior naval power

Discovery of gold mines

Support from the Portuguese

The Aztec Empire fell, and Spain established New Spain in its place.

The Aztec Empire expanded by defeating Cortés and his allies

Spain abandoned further attempts to conquer territory in the Americas.

The Aztec Empire and Spain formed a lasting political alliance.

Exploited ongoing Inca civil war

Captured Emperor Atahualpa

Formed an alliance with the Inca Empire

Demanded massive gold and silver ransom

Established navigation school

Explored African coast

Invented the printing press

Created maps of unknown regions