HIST 150 Lecture 1: Test 3 Lecture Notes (1) 10/2/14 Test 3
18 Jan 2015
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Economic: gold and silver, needs for asian goods (i. e. spices), mediterranean trade w/ Asia closed in 1453 (turkish troops occupied center of trade) Social: growing class of landless knights ---> looking for land and war expeditions. Technological: devices for location of ships (i. e. compass), new maps, charts, ship building (an arab invention the triangular sail, portuguese invention of caravella --> a sail ship w/ 3 masts combining large square sails w/ triangular ones) New tactics of the sea fighting w/ cannons. Portugal: prince henry the navigator started expeditions to explore the african coast. Bartolomeu dias reached the southern tip of africa. Amerigo vespucci discovered the new world (america) Vasco de balboa discovered the pacific ocean. Ferdinand magellan and sebastian elcano expedition around the world. Hernando cortes expedition against the aztecs (new spain) England: henry vi commissioned john cobot to sail to america. New plymouth founded, colonization of new england. France: jacques cartier reached the st. lawrence river.
