Unit #1 – Age of Absolutism Lesson #1 – EUROPEAN EXPLORATION and CONQUEST (444- 475)

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Unit #1 – Age of Absolutism Lesson #1 – EUROPEAN EXPLORATION and CONQUEST (444-475)

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Unit #1 – Age of Absolutism

Lesson #1 – EUROPEAN EXPLORATION and CONQUEST (444-

475)

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Essential Questions

1. What were some significant sailors of the 15th century? What did they do?

2. Why was the voyage of Columbus in the year 1492 considered so significant compared to many other successful and impressive sailors of his era?

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Prior to 15th Century• Wealth trade Dominated by Muslim traders– Wealth from Indian, Indonesia (East Indies) & China– Controlled the Indian Ocean trade

• Mediterranean Trade dominated by Venice– Controlled all goods entering Europe

• China wanted to control it all– Led by ADM Zheng He– His fleet eclipsed Europeans

– After he died, next Ming Emperor destroyed fleet

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Muslim Empire

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Zheng He

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• From China• Mammoth fleet• Sought to gain prestige for China in Muslim

trade region of Indian Ocean• China, at the time, was confident they were

the center of the world• After him, the fleet was destroyed• China started a long period of isolation• Great Wall of China expanded, no more fleets

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Portuguese Dominance• Worked to bypass Muslim Middle East• SCHOOL OF NAVIGATION (???)• Prince Henry, the Navigator• New inventions: The Caravel

The sternpost Rudder

The Lateen Sailthe Compass

and Astrolabe– Bartolemew Dias– Vasco da Gama

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Inventions of the School of Navigation

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Inventions of the School of Navigation

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Inventions of the School of Navigation

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Inventions of the School of Navigation

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Spanish Challenge• Columbus – Ferdinand and Isabella– Had just defeated Moors at Granada– Goal: increase land ownership– Goal #2: get rich!– Goal #3: Christians

• Columbus – considered great because…– He had a “lasting effect” on the future

• Line of Demarcation – to avoid conflict with P.• Pope Alexander VI

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Treaty of Tordesillas(Line of Demarcation)

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Full Comparison• Zheng He traveled way farther with way more

ships and men• Portuguese were first to start European

dominance• Spain created a new direction for the World:

domination by a region10m John Green

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Columbian Exchange(Led to a wealthy Spain in 1500s-1600s)

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Colonization of the Americas

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Colonization of the Americas• Encomienda feudal system• to indoctrinate the Native American Indians into the

Catholic faith• The Indians were expected to pay a tribute to the

Spanish Conquistadors in return for protection and religious instruction

• The Spanish Conquistadors had unrestrained power in America and they abused, oppressed, exploited and ill-treated the Native Americans.

• The Spanish Conquistadors and Encomienda system came to signify the oppression and exploitation of the Native Indians who lost their freedom, their rights, their culture and their religion.

• The Spanish Conquistadors were feared and hated.

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Colonization of the Americas

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Effect of Spanish System

• Start of Global Trade• Roots of Americas• Interest in Europe grew• Lust for Gold and Power• Led to French, English and Dutch fighting over

the scraps to the North• Spanish and Portuguese had well established

Gold and Silver mines, and giant plantations• Wealth from the Americas poured into the

armies of Charles V and Philip II