Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0514 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Crossing the Atlantic: Dias, Columbus, Tordesillas
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The idea
After Constantinople fell in fourteen fifty-three, Europeans dealt with Muslim middlemen for Asian goods and sought an all-water route. Dias rounded the Cape in fourteen eighty-eight; Columbus reached the Caribbean in fourteen ninety-two.
In practice
Tordesillas, fourteen ninety-four, awarding the Americas but Brazil to Spain.
Where people slip
Cortés took the Aztecs, Pizarro the Inca; the astrolabe came from the Middle East.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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