HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Plymouth Bay, The Columbian Exchange, Caravel
2 Nov 2016
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Lecture 5 outline - europe & the world. A desire to explore the east (especially asia) Its small, light, easy to build, and can haul a lot. Prince henry the navigator establishes school for navigation & sponsors (funds) much of early. Exploration (looks for a christian allie to fight islam) Bartholomeu dias discovers cape of good hope (1488) finds there"s a whole new ocean on the other side of africa. Christopher columbus (made a lot of money in the slave trade) (asks the portuguese first to help fund his journey) convinces castile"s [spain] king ferdinand and queen isabella to sponsor him. He calculates the diameter of the earth to be a lot small then it was. Lands on san salvador (bahamas) 1492 (not asia and claims the land for spain) Makes three more voyages to the new world (1493, 1498, & 1502) every time he explores different parts.
