Lesson1: Voyages pf Discovery

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  1. Hello guys.
  2. So today's lessons about voyages of discovery, remember that european
  3. merchants have traded with ages since ancient times.
  4. During the crusades, Europeans brought back silk and jewels from
  5. Asia for time for the, for a time, the Black
  6. Death and the Mongol invasions had interrupted this trade By
  7. the 1500 Strangers were eager to return to Egypt.
  8. At the same time, strong european states were emerging rulers
  9. of centralized states such as spain, Portugal, Portugal, England and
  10. France. So world trade as the key to increasing their
  11. own power and prosperity.
  12. So let's see what motivated Europeans to explore the city.
  13. It's just so let's get introduced, desire an opportunity to
  14. explore. So the desires that Europeans wanted asian spices.
  15. Italy and Egypt control the trade route in Asia and
  16. charge a lot of money for spices.
  17. Europeans decided to find the news here out.
  18. That led directly to Asia.
  19. Another desire is religion, to spread the christian religion, opportunity,
  20. advances in technology, Astral eight measures the position of the
  21. sun and stars, advances in shipbuilding.
  22. Portuguese. Uh, carnivals uh used uh triangular sails allowing it
  23. to steer against the wind.
  24. A carnival story Okay, replaced Ors with brothers to help
  25. tear brought Portugal to take the lead of the european
  26. age of exploration.
  27. We'll talk more about the Portuguese part and our next
  28. lesson. Okay, so spain and spanish or Portuguese.
  29. So the spanish exploration wanted to take over.
  30. America wanted the Aztec and Incas the inca empires.
  31. Gold wanted to convert native people to Christianity.
  32. Quickly defeated Aztecs and Incas Spanish had better weapons because
  33. they had better weapons.
  34. All took place in the 1500s.
  35. Portuguese, Henry, the navigator Prince Henry was responsible for uh
  36. much of Portugal.
  37. The Portuguese see, Success built observatory and Navigation school, Navigation
  38. school discovered south America by accident while trying to find
  39. africa. Vasco de Gama sailed around Africa to India in
  40. the 15 19.
  41. Uh Fernand.
  42. Uh Maglev Magdelin led a voyage around south America.
  43. Uh South America's southern tip and into the pacific and
  44. became first to uh secondary navigate around the world.
  45. Yeah. Okay.
  46. So let's see who is Christopher columbus.
  47. Do you remember guys, Do you know what do you
  48. know about Christopher columbus?
  49. I'm pretty sure that you have heard about him before.
  50. Ready? He's an italian sailor.
  51. Uh thought he had figured out a shorter way to
  52. Asia by sailing west across the atlantic ocean, went to
  53. consult spanish monarchs as a bell and uh for than
  54. in Christopher promised them riches, riches, new treachery and territory,
  55. I mean, and converts if they paid for his voyage.
  56. Uh after that, they have agreed, he set sail in
  57. August 1492.
  58. Uh he had 88 men with him and three ships
  59. in October 12 landed in the Bahamas.
  60. In the Bahamas Christopher thought it was Asia, but it
  61. wasn't. Mhm.
  62. The english and french both started to look for a
  63. water way to North America.
  64. Both claimed and claimed land for their countries.
  65. So land competition, England, England and Spain both wanted land
  66. and uh they wanted to, you know, like expand their
  67. territories, said Francis drive English began to steal treasures from
  68. Spain transport ships.
  69. In 18 88 to uh in 18 88 130 ships
  70. to attack England for stealing their treasure became known as
  71. the spanish army.
  72. Armada English had faster ships and better guns.
  73. So they defeated the spanish.
  74. A new european view of the world, european exploration brought
  75. knowledge about geography and approved and proved some theories wrong,
  76. learned that America that America was a separate landmass from
  77. Asia, learned to make more accurate maps.
  78. Study of maps, made new claims on land so potential
  79. for Great wealth and began to set up new colonies
  80. and trade and trade routes.
  81. Okay guys, we're going to uh, learn more about the
  82. 40 the Portuguese exploration in our next lesson.
  83. Please let me know if you have any questions.
  84. See you tomorrow.
  85. Bye.