Podcast Review Age of Exploration A Segerdahl Production

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Reasons for European Exploration Have to…Able to…Wanted to… Ottomans block routes Unfavorable balance Of trade (Asian products) Compass Influence of Muslim Tech: Caravel Ships Astrolabe Monarchs Profit: Gold/silver Spread religion Competition Glory

Key Players HenryColumbusDa GamaDiasCortesPizarro Noble; Organized School for sailors Proposed Western route First to Reach India Reached Cape of Good Hope Aztecs Mexico Incas S. America Spanish Conquistador Steel Weapons Writing/ Moveable Type Horses Govt Support Portugal Spain Portugal

Exploring Nations SpainPortugalFranceEnglandDutch Direct Rule Council of Indies Viceroy Most exploitive Inflation— gold/silver First: -Spice trade -Slave Trade -India Brazil Direct competitors (treaty of tordesillas) 1 major crop-sugar Canada Mississippi Permanent Settlements Massachusetts: Economics+ Religious freedom Replace Portugal in Far East New Powers after 1600 Indirect: Using companies

New World Societies impacted by Exploration AztecsIncas Pop. Decimated by disease Empire system Polytheistic Cortes Valley of Mexico Elaborate trade networks Humid Climate Hieroglyphs Pizarro Andes Isolated Cooler climate No formal written Language

International Slave Trade OriginsExpansionDecline Portuguese Firearms made Africans partners Slavery already existed Owning slaves meant status Discovery of New World Natives were inadequate Plantation system Sugar/mining Role of British Idea of equality Industrial Age

CoresPeripheries Export expensive Finished goods Ship Goods Western Europe Export cheap raw materials Locations of coercive labor systems Control the flow of trade Exploited in trade relationships Americas New Economic Model beginning in 1500

Vocab Side 1 1. Prince Henry the Navigator 2. Vasco Da Gama (areas explored, achievement) 3. Calicut 4. Conquistador 5. Council of Indies 6. Treaty of Tordesillas 7. Ecomienda System 8. Audencias 9. Viceroys 10. Bartholome de Las Casas 11. Ferdinand Magellan (areas explored) 12. Pizarro and Cortes (i.e. area explored, empires conquered) 13. Malacca

Vocab Side 2 1. British and Dutch (V0C) East India Co. 2. Commercial Revolution 3. Mercantilism 4. Colombian Exchange 5. Cape of Good Hope 6. Middle Passage 7. Battle of Lepanto 8. Mass Bay Company 9. New Netherlands

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