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Searching for New Trade Routes
• Before the age of Exploration, people believed that Europe, Asia, and Africa were the only 3 continents on the globe
• Most educated people in the early 1400s believed the world was round
• They described the Ocean Sea as the area between Europe and Asia
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But what were they missing???
Searching for New Trade Routes
• In the early 1400s, trade between Europe and Asia was very profitable
• However, the trip from Europe to Asia could be as long as 1,500 miles across land
• This took a very long time and was also very dangerous
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Merchant Trade Route
Reasons for Exploration
• People began to wonder if they could reach Asia if they sailed West around the world
• Explorers from all competing countries were now looking for a Northwest Passage (an East to West trade route to Asia)
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From the star, where would and East to West route go?
Searching for New Trade Routes
• Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, was one of the first explorers to believe that he could reach Asia by sailing West around the world
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Searching for New Trade Routes
• Spain decided to sponsor Columbus’s Trip to Asia by sailing West
• In 1492, Columbus set sail to try to find a Northwest Passage to Asia
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Searching for New Trade Routes
• Columbus reached land on October 12, 1492, he believed he was in Asia, but had really landed in the Bahamas
• Columbus has discovered the New World on accident!
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Searching for New Trade Routes
• Columbian Exchange: the transfer of ideas, plants, animals, people, disease, and technological innovations that happened after and because Columbus discovered the New World.
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New WorldCorn
PotatoesBeansCocoaGoldSilver
Tobacco
Old WorldWheatSugarHorsesCows
SmallpoxMeaslesInfluenza
Searching for New Trade Routes
• Columbus voyage led to many other explorers, from many other European countries, seeking out and claiming land in the New World
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Early map of the New World
Reasons for Exploration
• The period of Exploration was from 1400-1625
• Rally cry for exploration was for “Gold, Glory, and God”• Gold: race to expand European
trade to increase wealth • Glory: competition for recognition
and power among European countries
• God: Desire for religious freedom and missionary work in the New World
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Reasons for Colonization
• As people began to Explore the New Land, it led to them thoughts of colonization
• Colonization: Mass amounts of people from a specific country migrating to a new place to settle colonies with their own economies and societies
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Reasons for Colonization
• There were 4 basic motives for colonization• Religious• Economic• Political • Social
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