I. What Europeans had Learned by 1450 and How They Learned It.
 

A. Traders, Travlers & Pilgrims
 

1. Traders
 

a. Land Routes
 
 
 

b. Sea Routes
 
 
 

c. Ports & Cities
 
 
 
 
 

2. Travlers/Diplomats
 

a. General Importance
 
 

b. The Polo Family, 1271-1295
 
 
 
 

3. Missionaries
 

a. General Background
 

1. Christianty’s Expansion 1000A.D.-1450A.D.
 

a. Crusades

b. Colonization/Christianization of Pagan Europe
 
 

c. Reconquest of Spain
 
 

d. Missionaries in the East

 

b. John of Montecorvino, (1247-1328)

 

B. First Explorers
 

1. Motives
 

a. Spread Christianity
 

b. Profit
 
 

c. “National” Pride
 
 
 
 

2. First Steps
 

a. Portuguese and Spanish Efforts

II. European, Andean, Mesoamerican, and Caribbean Technology and Worldviews
 

A. Learning
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

B. Technology & Social Order
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

C. Attitudes towards Others