HISPANIZATION Flashcards
(35 cards)
Age of Exploration
15th to 17th century
terra incognita
unknown lands
why explore?
Mercantilism/ Bullionism Spices Catholicism Closing Silk Road Renaissance Travel Accounts Banking Families
Mercantilism/ Bullionism
gold & silver = riches
more gold
Spices
flavor
preservation
Catholicism
Political agenda
Muslim grudge- formerly Moorish Spain
against Luther’s counter-reformation
Closing Silk Road
New route Europe to Asia
Ottoman Empire won. Mehmed the conqueror closed off, huge tax except Venetians
Renaissance
Cultural and Scientific awakening
compasses
moveable printing press = maps available
Travel Accounts
Marco Polo- “get back gold from China”
Banking Families
De Medici
Fugger
financed expeditions for big returns
Reconquista Process
reclaim Moorish Spain
ended w/ Fall of Granada
Prince Henry, the navigator
funded explorations
navigation schools
Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu DIAZ
Calicut India
Vasco de Gama
Pope Alexander VI
intervened in SPN v PRTGL
proposed Inter Caetera
Inter Caetera
100 leagues west of Azores Demarcation line
PRTGL refused cause pope was Spanish
Treaty of Tordecillas
370 leagues west of Cape Verde
minimal changes
Ferdinand Magellan
wanted to go on expedition to Moluccas by going around (no rule breaking)
King Manuel
refused Magellan
1) risky
2) expensive
King Charles V
funded Magellan
Magellan expedition
250 crew members
5 ships
mission accomplished
5 ships
Trinidad Santiago Victoria San Antonio Conception
Important people in Magellan expedition
Antonio Pigafetta - chronicler
Fr. Pedro Valderama
Enrique de Malacca- slave translator
Why did ships leave Magellan?
slow travel
threat of food shortage
