Explorers and the Age of Exploration
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| Prince Henry "the Navigator" | Began and promoted the Portuguese exploration of the African coast.
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| Reasons for exploration | Venetians and Muslims had a monopoly on the Asian spice trade, and the Portuguese wanted to find a way around it.
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| Bartholomew Dias | Pioneered the Portuguese Empire by rounding the Cape of Good Hope
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| Vasco Da Gama | Was the first Portuguese man to make it to India by going around Africa. Returned to Portugal with spice load sixty times the cost of the voyage.
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| October 12, 1492 | Christopher Columbus lands in San Salvador in the Caribbean and believes it to be Asia. There, he finds friendly natives.
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| Amerigo Vespucci | The man for whom America is named. Explored the coastline of the Americas and determined that they were an unknown continent.
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| Ferdinand Magellan | Led an expedition around the world. Though killed in the Philippines, his crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
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| Religious reasons for conquest of New World | The Spanish had just finished driving the Moors out of Spain and Spanish explorers still had a zeal for conquering and converting non-Christians.
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| Results of exploration economically | Created Europe's longest surviving trading bloc and financed Spain's political and religious ventures in 16th and 17th centuries.
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| Results of exploration biologically | Europeans and Americans exchanged animals, fruits, vegetables, and diseases with one another.
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| Marco Polo | Famous explorer who wrote about his travels to China.
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| Prester John | A legendary Eastern Asian Christian ruler who was sought after by explorers.
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