The Age of Exploration Chapter 1.2. The Age of Exploration 700-1400- Muslims dominate trade routes...

The Age of Exploration

Chapter 1.2


• 700-1400- Muslims dominate trade routes between Africa and China, including The Silk Road


• 1100-1200- The Crusades brought Europeans into contact with Asian products


• 1300s- Venice gains a monopoly over trade from Asia into Europe


• 1400s- Prince Henry of Portugal attempts to break the Venetian monopoly by finding a sea route to Asia


• 1492- Christopher Columbus proposed a faster route to Asia by sailing west

• He is wrong, but he discovers a “New World”


• 1500s- The Columbian Exchange begins- animals, plants and ideas are trades across the Atlantic Ocean

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