1. ISN pg 92 Title: Effects of Exploration
Preview: In what ways was the Age of Exploration a positive time period? A negative time period?

2. Effects of Exploration
Age of Exploration
Effects of Exploration

3. Positive Effects Increased Wealth:
Europeans gained new sources for raw materials; did not have to pay anyone for these goods
Europeans gained new markets to sell products
Gold was most valuable resource; led to immediate wealth

4. Positive Effects
Technological Advances—gained new ideas through cultural diffusion:
Magnetic compass, astrolabe
Better maps
Caravels
Thermometer, barometer
Printing Press spread new ideas

5. Positive Effects Columbian Exchange:
New crops were introduced in Europe from the Americas: Corn, potatoes, beans, chocolate, pineapples
New products from Europe were introduced in the Americas: Wheat, grapes, horses, cows

6. Positive Effects Political Powers:
Major shift in power; a nation’s power now determined by its wealth (mercantilism)
Spain & Portugal became the strongest European powers after creating large number of colonies

7. Positive Effects
New Empires—European nations created large numbers of colonies:
Spain: Central & South Americas
Portugal: Africa, Brazil, Spice Islands (East Indies)
England & France: North America
Netherlands: New York, Cape of Good Hope, Spice Islands (from Portuguese)

8. Map Activity

9. Negative Effects of the Age of Exploration

10. Negative Effects Asian empires were dominated:
India & Spice Islands were under control of Europeans who used cotton & spices as luxury imports in Europe
China & Japan were influenced by Christian missionaries & European weapons; but were influenced by European merchants (Japan began isolate itself under Tokagawa)

11. Negative Effects Native American civilizations destroyed:
Native Americans were not immune to European diseases (smallpox)
Forced into slavery
Used tribes against each other
Intermarriage with Conquistadors
Conquistadors took land and natural resources

12. Negative Effects Plantation System:
Europeans developed large, single-crop plantations to produce cash crops for Europe
Depleted natural resources
Led to need for large, slave labor force to work fields

13. Negative Effects African Slavery:
Europeans needed labor force to work in Americas
Triangular Trade developed:
Europeans produce manufactured goods, traded for African slaves
Slaves taken to Americas, sold for money to buy raw materials
Raw materials taken to Europe to make manufactured goods

16. Negative Effects Triangular Trade:
The transportation of African slaves from the West Coast of Africa to the New World was called the Middle Passage

18. Triangle Trade Mapping Activity