1. Good Morning!  Monday 11/14 Today in class:
Instead of a Journal I want you to come grab the handout off my desk
You need to read the page numbers I listed on the handout
Then fill in the worksheet
Also, pay attention to the map on page 21…it’s going to be on your Midterm!
Work on Ch. 14 & 15 Packets
I seriously need you to put in work, & not be off task, for this chapter b/c it’s 500 years & the entire world!

2. Good Morning!  Tuesday 11/15
Journal:
From yesterday, what was quipus?
What was the capital of the Aztec empire? Capital of the Incan empire?
Name the (most well known) ruler of all 3 Meso-American civilizations.
All of these items will be on your test!
Today in class:
Work on Ch. 14 & 15 Packets
Ch. 14, section 1 notes

3. Age of Exploration, colonization, and the Americas
Ch. 14 & 15

4. Motives for exploration
Asian Goods
Moluccas (Indonesia) – Spice Islands
Used to preserve food, flavor meat, make medicine & perfume
Later:
Gold, Land, Fame & Glory
Spread Christianity
Better Technology: (pg )
Compass
Better Maps – portolan map
Better Navigable Ships
Caravel – light & fast
Ch. 14, section 1 Pages: 260

6. Early Exploration The Portuguese 1418-1498 Prince Henry the Navigator
Madeira and Azores
Convert Africa & find a quicker way to Asia
Bartholomeu Dias
“Cape of Good Hope”
Southern tip of Africa
Vasco da Gama
Gives Portugal dominance with Spice trade in India
14.1 pgs

7. Early Exploration Christopher Columbus August 3, 1492 October 12, 1492
Italian Explorer from Genoa
Sponsored by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
Want to reestablish wealth and prestige
Wants to go to East Indies by going West
August 3, 1492
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria set sail
October 12, 1492
Land spotted - Bahamian Island
Later colonizes Cuba and Hispaniola
Makes three other trips
Never knew he was NOT IN ASIA
14.1 pgs

8. The Treaty of Tordesillas
Portugal vs. Spain
Seek support to claims in new world
Appeals to Pope Alexander VI (Spanish)
Fearing conflict between the two he establishes the Line of Demarcation 1493
Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
Portugal claims east of Line
Spain claims west of Line
Spain and Portugal corner the market in America
The other European Powers now look to the Americas
14.1 pgs. 264

9. Getting The World Map Straight
Amerigo (America) Vespucci
Journals written by Vespucci help re- draw the map of the world
East Indies are the West Indies
Vasco Nunez de Balboa 1513
Cuts through Panama only to find a new ocean (Pacific)
Ferdinand Magellan 1519
Circumnavigates the world – 3 years
Strait of Magellan
Magellan killed in Philippines
Earth was bigger than expected
14.1 pgs. 265

11. Good Morning!  Wednesday 11/16
Quiz, no Journal:
Please, immediately, grab your clicker
List is on the wall by the whiteboard shelf
I will ask you 5 of the 10 packet questions
Keep your packet on your desk for the quiz
Today in class:
Age of Exploration & Slave Trade graphic organizers (already in your packet)
14.1 (AoE), 14.2 & 15.4 (ST)…textbook
Similar to what we did Monday with Meso-America…you get 25 mins, I get 10
Work on Ch. 14 & 15 Packets

12. Europeans in Africa
Portuguese would be first with the establishment of forts along the coast
Initially these establishments were set up as trading posts for Europeans, but b/c the Portuguese remained on the African coast they never established a strong foothold throughout Africa & their power quickly faded
Later European powers would establish more permanent settlements
Cape Town - first permanent settlement (Dutch)
14.2 pgs

13. The African Slave trade
European Slave Trade Begins in 1500’s
Slavery already existed in Africa & elsewhere (ancient)
Slaves were bought as cheap labor to work on plantations in Europe & the Americas
Europeans rarely went into Africa’s interior, instead they relied on African rulers & traders to seize captives from the interior & bring them to coastal trading posts
African Kingdoms Control (profit from) Slave Trade & form new African States:
Asante Kingdom (Ghana)
Oyo Empire (Nigeria)

14. The African Slave trade
The Triangular Trade
Leg 1: guns, cloth, cash, to Africa for slaves
Leg 2: slaves to America for sugar, molasses, and other manufactured goods
Leg 3: sugar, molasses, cotton, tobacco, etc. to Europe to be sold for profit…..lots of profit!!!!
The Middle Passage
Leg 2
Complete Horror
Slaves brought from all over Africa and “Packed” on ships towards Americas
Disease, Mutinies, Pirates, Loss of Ship
Slave Trade continues from 1500-mid 1800s
15.4 pgs