1. Warm Up – October 17
10 minutes to review for your Unit 4 Test

2. After the Test… Bring your test and answer sheet up to my desk
CAN USE YOUR CHROMEBOOK BUT NO TALKING, NO PHONES, NO TALKING – MUST BE QUIET UNTIL EVERYONE IS DONE WITH THE TEST

3. Unit 5: Age of Exploration

5. Definition
Period when Europeans began exploring Africa, Americas and Asia
Occurred 1400s – 1700s

6. Motives for Exploration
1) God
European Christians believed it was their duty to convert people
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Matthew 28

7. Motives for Exploration
2) Gold
Europeans wanted new wealth, especially gold
Wanted to increase trade with Asia

8. Motives for Exploration
3) Glory
Explorers wanted adventure and fame

9. Contact with Africans Europeans made trading posts in Africa
Sailed around Africa to Asia, brought back spices for huge profit

10. Contact with Native Americans
Christopher Columbus:
Looking for quicker route to Asia
Sailed west across Atlantic
Europeans didn’t know the Americas existed

11. Contact with Native Americans
Spanish took over Caribbean, Central & South America
Forced natives to convert to Christianity, tortured & killed them if they didn’t
Enslaved natives

12. Contact with Native Americans
English - founded colonies in America, pushed Indians out of the way
French- traded with Indians in America & Canada

14. Triangular Trade Trade between Europe, Africa and Americas 1400-1700’s
Europeans traded for slaves in Africa
Sold slaves in the Americas, used $ to buy American foods and tobacco
Brought American goods back to Europe & sold them

16. Triangular Trade Middle Passage – voyage of African slaves to America
Conditions = abuse, disease, malnutrition
~20% died during the journey

17. Effects on Africa Millions of Africans taken to Americas as slaves
Corn from Americas makes Africa’s population rise

18. Columbian Exchange
Transfer of foods, ideas and people during colonization of the Americas
Africa, Europe and Americas were each involved

19. Effects on Europe Economic effects:
Creation of joint-stock companies – investors give money to a company, get a share of profits later on
Mercantilism - Money replaces land as basis of wealth

20. Effects on Europe Social effects:
New foods (corn and potatoes) increase population

21. Effects on Americas
Diseases (smallpox, flu) kill ~90% of Native Americans
Survivors enslaved by Spanish conquistadors (explorers), driven off land by English colonists
Some Native Americans fought against Spanish, English

22. TOD – October 17 Answer the following questions on a post it:
1. Describe the three European motivations for exploration
2. Describe the differences between the Spanish, English and the French in regards to how they treated the Native Americans
3. Describe Triangular Trade
4. What is mercantilism? How would mercantilism lead countries like England to become more involved in what was happening in the colonies?
5. What was the biggest effect exploration had on natives in America?