1. Unit #1 – Age of Absolutism
Lesson #1 – EUROPEAN EXPLORATION and CONQUEST ( )

2. 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

3. Muslim Empire

6. Why would these maps of Europe freak out most Europeans?

7. Travels of Zheng He

8. What can we learn about the greatness of the Chinese explorers, looking at this map??

10. 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 region
10m John Green

11. How did the Portuguese get a head start on global trade?

12. Portuguese Dominance Worked to bypass Muslim Middle East
SCHOOL OF NAVIGATION (???)
Prince Henry, the Navigator
New inventions: The Caravel
The sternpost Rudder
The Lateen Sail
the Compass and Astrolabe
Bartolemew Dias
Vasco da Gama

13. Inventions of the School of Navigation

14. Inventions of the School of Navigation

15. Inventions of the School of Navigation

16. Inventions of the School of Navigation

17. 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

18. Treaty of Tordesillas (Line of Demarcation)

19. What was “given” to the Americas from Europe?
Categorize what was given

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

21. Colonization of the Americas

22. Colonization of the Americas

23. 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

24. Comparison of two documents (red book, under chairs)
p. 346 – A DEFENSE OF AMERICAN NATIVES
p. 348 – MONTAIGNE ON “CANNIBALS” IN FOREIGN LANDS
What do you think…
What is Montaigne saying about Europeans?
Answer the last question on p. 348
Why is de Las Casas so hard on Europeans?