5.1 - Europeans Explore Overseas Q's

The Portuguese gained dominance of the spice trade because Vasco da Gama acquired a cargo of spices in India sold at an enormous profit so he quickly outfitted a new fleet seeking greater profits. He forced a treaty on the ruler of Calicut, and then left Portuguese merchants there whose job was to buy spices when prices were low and store them until the next fleet could return. Before long, they started seizing other outposts around the Indian Ocean. As a result was abled to control the majority of the spice trade.

Describe how the Portuguese gained dominance of the spice trade.

Competition between European countries such as Portugal and Spain affects overseas exploration and expansion since they signed the Treaty of Tordesillas which divided the non-European world into two zones. Spain had trading and exploration rights in any lands west of the line, including most of the Americas. Portugal had the same rights east of the line.

How did competition between European countries such as Portugal and Spain affect overseas exploration and expansion?

The religious beliefs caused Dutch immigrants to aggressively expand their settlements in Southern Africa because Dutch farmers called Boers who looked on Africans as inferiors so they began to push north from the Cape Colony.

How did religious beliefs cause Dutch immigrants to aggressively expand their settlements in Southern Africa?

European searches for a direct route across the Atlantic Ocean to Asia starting with Vasco Nuñez de Balboa who with the help of local Indians, hacked a passage westward through the tropical forests of Panama. Another one was Ferdinand Magellan who set out from Spain with five ships to find a way to reach the Pacific.

Summarize European searches for a direct route across the Atlantic Ocean to Asia.

His discovery of the Pacific Ocean established Spain's claim to it and the land surrounding it, and spurred Magellan to seek a direct route to the to the Pacific and the East Indies beyond. ( Magellan's ships emerged into Balboa's South Sea. )

What was the significance of Balboa's discovery?

Gold god and Glory spice trade some missionaries and soldiers ventured overseas to win new converts to Christianity. The Renaissance spirit of curiosity also fed a desire to learn more about lands beyond Europe. Improvements in technology helped Europeans cross vast ocean: astrolabe, caravel, armaments

What were the major causes of European exploration?

Because they were searching for spices (<- Main reason)

Why did Europeans explre Africa, Asia, and the Americas beginning in the 1400s?

Because Spain got trading and exploring rights in any lands west of the line, including most of the Americas. It also allowed Spain (and Portugal) to claim vast areas in their zones.

Why were Spanish rulers pleased with the Treaty of Tordesillas and Line of Demarcation?