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The Search for Spices
Chapter 14 Section 1
Moluccas: island chain in present day Indonesia; chief source of spices called "Spice Islands"
Italian & Arab merchants dominate
Prince Henry: sponsored exploration for Portugal
Gathered cartographers or mapmakers
Interest in African people and converting them to Christianity
Vasco da Gama: ten-month voyage to Calicut
Portuguese navigator who led four ships around Cape of Good Hope
In search of spices
Lost 1/2 of ships on the way home because of disease and hunger
Vast trading empire
Christopher Columbus: Italian navigator from Genoa who wanted to reach East Indies
1492 : sailed west & discovered the "New World"
Called natives "Indians" due to a large misconception
Line of Demarcation: Pope Alexander VI set this to divide non European world into two zones
Treaty of Tordesillas: terms of Line of Demarcation agreed to and signed between Spain & Portugal in 1494
Ferdinand Magellan: Portuguese nobleman looking for passage to Pacific
Reached South American & founded the Strait of Magellan
Crew wanted to go back to Spain, but Magellan insisted on continuing
Continued on to Asia & was there for 4 months
Killed in Philippines
They were the first to CIRCUMNAVIGATE (travel the world)
(cc) photo by theaucitron on Flickr