| A | B |
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| For centuries Europeans had traded with the | Far East (Asian countries known as the Indies |
| Europeans traveled through the Mediterranean Sea and the land route called the | Silk Road for silk, jewels, and spices |
| Marco Polo’s "Travels" | (one of the very first books thanks to moveable type/printing press) led European’s to believe China’s riches could be obtained by sea with ships |
| Europeansn eeded to find shorter and quicker routes | To deliver goods quicker than the competition and to make more money than the competition |
| Middlemen | who bought goods, marked the prices up, and sold them to traders and consumers drove the prices up on goods - dyes, silk, perfumes, drugs, gold, jewels, spices (pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves) |
| Christopher Columbus | believed he could sail west from Spain to the Far East |
| On October 12, 1492, Columbus' grew spotted land they believed to be the | Indies; it was really a Caribbean island he named San Salvador (now the Bahamas Islands). |
| Columbus | called the people Indians;he thought it was 3,000 when it was really 12, 000 miles |
| Spain and Portugal agreed to divide the New World;they used ___________the to say Portugal would take possession of Brazil (in S. A.) and Spain would colonize C.A., Mexico, and much of S. A | Treaty of Toredesillas |
| John Cabot | Discovered Newfoundland (Canada);Really rediscovered it as Lief Ericsson had already landed in Labrador |
| In 1498, Vasco de Gama sailed around Africa and reached India | An ocean trade route to the Orient (Asia) had finally been found |
| In 1499, Italian navigator Amergio Vespucci sailed along the coast of S. America. | America is named after him |
| In 1522, Ferdinand Magellan succeeded in reaching Asia by sailing west | it was too long(Ferdinand-forever-it took forever) |
| Europeans wanted an easier route to China and India; they were looking for the | Northwest Passage |
| Northwest Passage was an | all water route to Asia through the N. A. continent |
| Spain became land | hungry and traveled in Mexico |
| Conquistadors | conquered the native people, took their land, and created a huge empire for Spain |
| Spanish settled in | Florida called St. Augustine in 1565 |
| England became jealous | of Spain and began its exploration |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | claimed land north of the Spanish settlements and called it Virginia in the 1580s |
