Globalization and Explorization

By Dunes19895
  • 1400

    Prince Henry of Portugal

    Prince Henry of Portugal
    Prince Henry of Portugal (The Navigator) funded and encouraged exploration, the study of navigation and the development of new tools to aid navigation. By mid-15th century he made it the coast of Africa. There he hoped to get rich. Africa had food, salt, gold and slaves. His people married African women slave traders. Ensuring their wealth and the women ensured more trade routes for themselves.
  • Period: 1400 to

    Globalization and Exploration

  • 1488

    Cape of Storms

    Cape of Storms
    Bartolomeu Dias rounded the "Cape of Storms" and was able to go into the Indian Ocean and there establish trade in India.
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    The Spanish Empire had voyages by the Genoese Columbus to colonize and extract wealth. He landed in the Carribean first before landing in America.
  • 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    Treaty of Tordesillas
    Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas to split the newly discovered lands in America. This gave Spain majority control of North America and some south with Portugal with the lesser.
  • 1497

    Newfoundland

    Newfoundland
    John Cabot goes to Newfoundland in hopes to find land North of what Columbus found in hopes to secure a different trade route to Asia.
  • 1498

    Vasca da Gamma

    Vasca da Gamma
    Vasco da Gama reached India and found a highly developed Indian Ocean Commerce trading posts run by Muslim merchants.
  • 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish ships circumnavigated the globe, opening the world up to global transportation, exchange, settlement, global slavery, warfare, pandemics and conquest. He started with 5 ships and 237 voyagers and in the end, he was killed and 1 ship came back with 18 original men.
  • 1521

    Incan's defeated

    Incan's defeated
    Francisco Pizarro defeats the Incan's and continues European colonization in America. This allowed for more traded goods.
  • 1543

    Antonio Mota swept off course

    Antonio Mota swept off course
    Antonio Mota loses course because of a storm and landed in Japan and ended up setting up trade with them.

  • Atlantic Slave Trade

    Atlantic Slave Trade
    Slaves were brought to Jamestown beginning the Atlantic slave trade. Free labor meant increased production and services, bolstering the economy.