EUROPEAN EXPANSION TO COLUMBUS

factors in European expansion

• growth and development of national monarchies

• trade

• missionary impulse

• curiosity

key events, groups, and individuals in European exploration and expansion, 1000-1492

• *Vikings

• the Crusades

• Chinggis Khan's Mongolian empire across Eurasia

• growth of European trade with Asia

  • began with the Crusades

  • led by Italian city-states

    • Marco Polo

• Portuguese exploration of the Atlantic coast of Africa during the fourteenth century

  • Dom Henrique/Prince Henry the Navigator

  • Bartholomeu Dias

  • Vasco da Gama