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Earlier ExplorationsEarlier Explorations1. 1100’s Crusades-Islam &
Spice Trade India (Moluccas-cloves)
2. New player Europe
1271-Marco Polo-IT.-China
Expansion becomes a business European Monarchs had authority & resources to explore
Admiral Zheng HeAdmiral Zheng He
1371-1435
Asia/India/Africa-Floating cities!
Zheng He’s VoyagesZheng He’s Voyages
Map of the Known World, pre- 1492
Map of the Known World, pre- 1492
***Motives for European Exploration
***Motives for European Exploration
1. Crusades by-pass intermediarie (middlemen) to get to Asia
2. Renaissance curiosity about other lands and peoples
3. Reformation refugees & missionaries/spread the word of God
4. Gold-New Resources & Revenue
5. God-Christianize
6. Glory-Fame & fortune for their country
New Weapons Technology
New Weapons Technology
New Maritime TechnologiesNew Maritime Technologies
Astrolabe (lat.)(1532)
Rough Maps [Portulan]
Sextant (angle-
Horizon)
Mariner’s Compass
Prince Henry, the Navigator
Prince Henry, the Navigator
1419-School for Navigation,
Museum of Navigationin Lisbon
Museum of Navigationin Lisbon
Portuguese Maritime Empire
Portuguese Maritime Empire
1. Exploring north/west coast of Africa
2. 1487-Bartolommeo Dias (Cape of Storms)
3. 1498- Vasco Da Gama reached port of Calcutta, India!
4. Cabral-Brazil-Asia/India Spice Is-Indonesia
Christoforo Colombo [1451-1506]-Italian
Christoforo Colombo [1451-1506]-Italian
Columbus’ Four Voyages-1492
Columbus’ Four Voyages-1492
Other Voyages of Exploration
Other Voyages of Exploration
Ferdinand Magellan & the First
Circumnavigation of the World:
Early 16c-potuguese
Ferdinand Magellan & the First
Circumnavigation of the World:
Early 16c-potuguese
Atlantic ExplorationsAtlantic Explorations
Looking for “El Dorado”
Fernando Cortez/conquist
ador
Fernando Cortez/conquist
ador
The First Spanish Conquests:The Aztecs
The First Spanish Conquests:The Aztecs
Montezuma IIMontezuma II
vs.
vs.
The Death of Montezuma IIThe Death of Montezuma II
Mexico Surrenders to Cortez
Mexico Surrenders to Cortez
Francisco Pizarro
The First Spanish Conquests:
The Incas
The First Spanish Conquests:
The Incas
Atahualpa
vs.
Slaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar MillSlaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar Mill
The “Columbian Exchange”
The “Columbian Exchange” Squash Avocado Peppers Sweet Potatoes
Turkey Pumpkin Tobacco Quinine
Cocoa Pineapple Cassava POTATO
Peanut TOMATO Vanilla MAIZE
Syphilis
Olive COFFEE BEAN Banana Rice
Onion Turnip Honeybee Barley
Grape Peach SUGAR CANE Oats
Citrus Fruits Pear Wheat HORSE
Cattle Sheep Pigs Smallpox
Flu Typhus Measles Malaria
Diptheria Whooping Cough
Trinkets
Liquor
GUNS
Cycle of Conquest & Colonization
Cycle of Conquest & Colonization
1. Explorers Conquistadores
Mis
sion
arie
s
PermanentSettlers
5. OfficialEuropeanColony!
Treasuresfrom the Americas!
Treasuresfrom the Americas!
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Slave TradeThe Slave Trade1. Existed in Africa before the
coming of the Europeans
2. Portuguese replaced European slaves with Africans (slave from Slav)
Sugar cane & sugar plantations
First boatload of African slaves brought by the Spanish in 1518
275,000 enslaved Africans exportedto other countries
3. Between 16c & 19c, about 10 million Africans shipped to the Americas
Slave ShipSlave Ship
“Middle Passage”
“Coffin” Position Below Deck
“Coffin” Position Below Deck
African CaptivesThrown OverboardAfrican Captives
Thrown Overboard
Sharks followed the slave ships!
European Empires in the Americas
European Empires in the Americas
The Colonial Class System
The Colonial Class System
Peninsulares Creoles
Mestizos
Mulattos
Native Indians Black Slaves
Spanish Empire in the New World
Spanish Empire in the New World
1. Encomienda -natives used as forced labor
2. Council of the Indies
Viceroy
New Spain and Peru
3. Papal agreement
The Influence of the Colonial Catholic
Church
The Influence of the Colonial Catholic
Church
Guadalajara Cathedral
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Spanish Mission
1494-Treaty of Tordesillas Pope’s Line of Demarcation
Betw. Spain & port.
1494-Treaty of Tordesillas Pope’s Line of Demarcation
Betw. Spain & port.
Father Bartolome de Las Casas
Father Bartolome de Las Casas
New Laws 1542
New Colonial RivalsNew Colonial Rivals
1. Portugal lacked numbers & wealth to dominate trade in Indian ocean
2. 1591-1st English expedition to the Indies drove out Portg. (India becomes British colony)
3. 1595-Dutch-Netherlands-Dutch East India Company –Kicked out Portg.-Monopolized trade -Spice Is. East Asia-(cloves)
New Colonial RivalsNew Colonial Rivals
***Negative Impact of European Exploration
------
***Negative Impact of European Exploration
------1. Native populations ravaged
by disease……….ex….
2. Native pop. Enslaved- Native Americas ………….
3. Slave Trade –Caused a Diaspora of African people/Middle passage/Sugar mills etc……….
Impact-----
Wars & power struggles betw. Europeans (for control of land in the new areas/control of & trade) ex; French Indian War between…….natives used in the wars etc….
Impact of Exploration----
• Natives-Indigenous people lost culture/religion /traditions forced to adapt European ways………..ex-Maya/Incas/Aztec and the conquers….
Positive Impact• Influx of gold, and silver, into Europe created wealth+++++
• New products +/_introduced across continents -“Columbian Exchange”+/-both positive and negative
+Impact of Age of Exploration
• Brought technology/created Industries-money system
• Created railroads/roads/• canals/….schools/hospitals……• Emergence of the modern
world…U.S
-Reduced local warfare betw. Tribes-tribes stopped fighting…
EXTENDED RESPONSES
• Essay• The Age of European Exploration
and conquest had both negative and positive consequences Explain the positive and negative effects of the age of ex/colonization
5. New Patterns of World Trade
5. New Patterns of World Trade