Age of European Exploration

European Exploration 15th-16th centuries

Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460)

A caravel with lateen sails

Goals: Gold, slaves, scientific curiosity

Voyages of Bartolomeu Dias

Vasco da Gama (1460-1524)

Vasco da Gama’s First Route to India

The Portuguese and the Indian Ocean

The Portuguese in China (in Macao, e.g.)

Afonso Albuquerque and The Moluccas

The Molucca (or Spice) Islands

Spices

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Agreement between Spain and Portugal that establishes a line of demarcation so as to divide their discoveries in the New World and avoid conflict

Spanish conquistadors and explorers (Columbus, etc.)