AP World History: Modern / Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections (c. 1450–1750)
4.2 Exploration: Causes and Events from 1450 to 1750
Notes
Motives: wealth, religion and competition. Portugal (Henry the Navigator, da Gama to India in 1498) and Spain (Columbus, 1492) led. Later: the Dutch, English and French.
Practice
Vasco da Gama reached India by sailing:
1498.
Portugal's early exploration was promoted by:
Navigation school.
A main motive of European exploration was:
Cut out middlemen.
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