Other Europeans discover the world

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The start of the age of discoveries

1.2 Other Europeans discover the world

Summer holidays

Key words

Silk Route: an overland trade route that linked Europe to Asia

Monopoly: the right to be the only one to trade in a specific product or in a certain area

Age of Discovery: the time in which European countries explored the world (1450 until 1700)

Cape of Good Hope: the southern-most point of Africa

Spice trade: the trade in valuable spices from Asia, such as cinnamon, pepper and nutmeg

Naval power: when a country has a strong fleet of war ships

You learn 

Why the Europeans were going to exlore the world?

What the silk route is.

How to read a map of the routes the different explorers used to travel the world

Who Marco Polo and Vasco Da Gama were

Explain how successful or unsuccessful the various explorers were in finding trade routes or new lands and establishing trade there

As a reminder, which European country started exploring the world first?

1. Venice
2. Portugal
3. England
4. Spain

Marco? Polo!

 Marco Polo's travels

Why did Marco Polo travel to Asia?

The silk route

Around the year 1000 there was an increase in agricultural products. (more food)

Due to this the trade between cities flourished and expanded. Luxury products, like spices, had to come from Asia to Europe. The traders travelled on the Silk Route this was very expensive. > spices were expensive

Exercises

Do exercise 1, 2,3,

1453- Fall of Constantinopel

After the fall of  Constantinopel in the hands of the Ottomans a route over sea became more important for the Europeans.

Vasco da Gamma

Exercise

Do exercise 5,7,8,10 and 11

Why did the Portugese start exploring the sea routes?

1. They wanted to discover Atlantis
2. They wanted to trade with Asia directly
3. They wanted to trade with Africa directly
4. They wanted to discover America

Nova Zembla

Barentz & De Houtkamp

Ship trapped in the pack ice

Shelter: 'het Behouden Huys'

What did you learn?