Early Modern Age Age of European Exploration 1450 - 1750 AP World History Early Modern Age Age of European Exploration 1450 - 1750
Chapter 22 Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections Portugal and Spain
Ten Minute History – The Early Portuguese and Spanish Empires
Europeans Explore the East Exploration Factors Influence: Crusades 1096-1270 Wealth spices / luxury goods bypass Italian middleman Spread Christianity Christianity and commerce New technologies caravel triangular sails sail into the wind astrolabe magnetic compass
Oceanic Navigation
Europeans Explore the East Portugal – 1450 AD technology innovator Prince Henry Africa trading ‘posts’ gold, slaves Asia Spices, silks, porcelain Bartolomeu Dias – 1488 tip of Africa Vasco da Gama - 1498 1st to reach India Spain – 1492 AD Treaty of Tordesillas – 1494 Line of Demarcation lands Portugal & Spain could claim
Why Salt and Pepper?
Treaty of Tordesillas SPAIN PORTUGAL
Europeans Explore the East Indian Ocean Trade Portugal Financed by Crown bombed E. African ports 80% less for spices Spain Magellan – 1521 Philippines Dutch / English / French – 1600 joint-stock companies East India Company Private investors
Magellan’s Navigation of the Globe
Spanish Conquests in the Americas Columbus’ Voyages Goal: trade route to Asia (west) India gold and spices 1492: San Salvador los Indios 1493 Colonies Amerigo Vespucci - 1507 discovery of ‘new world’ Ferdinand Magellan - 1519 1st to circumnavigate globe
Importance of Spices
History versus Columbus
Exploration Voyages
Spain’s American Empire Hernando Cortes - 1519 conquistadors (conquerors) gold and silver Aztec Empire - 1521 600 men Tenochtitlan Aztec capital Montezuma II Aztec emperor Reasons for conquest weapons, allies, disease Francisco Pizarro - 1532 180 men vs. 30,000 men Civil war
Americapox – The Missing Plague
Spain’s American Empire New World Society mestizos mixed Spanish / native people encomienda native labor system Brazil Portuguese sugar plantations Spanish Influence Class system color Catholicism mixture Language