1. The Age of European Exploration
Clash Of Cultures
The Age of European Exploration

2. Learning Objective Analyze how economic, political, social,
By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
Analyze how economic, political, social,
military and religious freedom influenced
European Exploration
and
American colonial settlement. (AH1-3.1)

3. The World: Ptolemy’s Geography, 150 AD http://www. theatlantic

4. The Medieval World Territorial Exploration, 1507 AD

5. Significant Powers That Influenced European Exploration
West Africa Empires
The Ottoman Empire
China
Europe
Italy
Portugal
Spain

6. West African Kingdoms
Ghana, 800 AD
Mali, 1200 AD
Songhai, 1400 AD

7. Northern Africa Mostly Islamic Region controlled by the
Ottoman Empire (Turkish
Muslims)

8. Trade With Europeans Salt Ivory Gold Slaves Not based on race
Portugal-1st to trade in slaves

9. 13th century Europe

10. Marco Polo, 1265 AD From Italy overland to China
Whets European appetites for items in Asia
Prompts European exploration/expeditions to find sea route to Asia

11. European Exploration: Inventions & Innovations
Cartography (map making)
Astrolabe
Used by the Portuguese, 1481
Measures the altitude of sun, stars & heavenly bodies
Replaced by the Sextant in the 1700s

12. Europeans: Invention & Innovations
Compass
Used in Europe by the 11th century
Determines direction relative to Earth’s magnetic poles

13. Portugal: Prince Henry the Navigator, 1419
Sends explorers down coast of western Africa
Hug the coastline
The first Africans are brought to Europe (not as slaves, but for exhibition)
First African slaves (10 of them) brought to Europe in 1442

14. Portugal: Vasco Da Gama, 1498
Travels around the southern tip of Africa
Reaches the Indian Ocean & India
Establishes trade routes along the way

15. Other European Explorers
1492-Spain John Cabot,1497-England
Jacques Cartier 1534-France

16. “Line of Demarcation”
Divided newly discovered territories between Portugal & Spain
First defined by Pope Alexander VI (1493) and was later revised by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

17. Line of Demarcation
Spain won control of lands discovered west of the line, while Portugal gained rights to new lands to the east of the line.

18. North America (U.S. & Canada)
The Americas
Mesoamerica & the Conquistadors
North America (U.S. & Canada)
Olmec, 1500 BC
Maya, 300 BC
Aztec, 1325 AD
Inca, 500 BC
Adena & Hopewell
Mississippian
Anasazi
Iroquois League
Inuit

19. The Columbian Exchange
Exchange of goods, animals, natural resources, diseases, etc. between Europeans and the Americas

20. The Triangular Trade
System in which slaves, crops & manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Caribbean and the American colonies

21. The Middle Passage
The crossing from Africa to the Americas, which ships made carrying their ‘cargo’ of slaves. It was so-called because it was the middle section of the trade route taken by many of the ships.