1. Despite the fact that Columbus never found Asia, Ferdinand Magellan still thought he could reach Asia by sailing West
Magellan became the first explorer to circumnavigate the Earth (go all the way around)

2. Cortez conquered the Aztecs
Spain sent explorers called conquistadors to the New World to find gold, claim land, & spread Christianity
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
Pizarro conquered the Inca
Spain sent explorers to the New World to find gold, claim land, & spread Christianity
Cortez conquered Mexico & destroyed the Aztec civilization
Pizarro conquered Peru & destroyed the Incan civilization
The influx of gold from America made Spain the most powerful country in Europe during the early years of the Age of Exploration

3. England, France, & the Netherlands became involved in overseas exploration & colonization as well

4. Like England, the Netherlands (the Dutch) allowed private companies to fund exploration
The Dutch had colonies in America & Africa, but the Dutch East India Company dominated trade in Asia

5. Columbian Exchange Corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and chocolate Turkey
From Europe
From The Americas
Sugar, wheat, oranges, grapes, and onions Horses, sheep, goats, cows, cats, and rats Diseases: smallpox, typhus, cholera, and measles
Corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and chocolate
Turkey
Gold, Silver, Tobacco, Quinine
Columbian Exchange

7. Triangular Trade
Triangular Trade- trading network lasting from the 1600’s to the 1800’s that carried goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

8. The Atlantic Slave Trade

9. Origins of the Slave Trade
High demand for labor
Plantations- estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on large scale.
Shortage of Labor
Planter had first used Native Americans as workers, but European diseases had killed millions of them
Indentured servants were too expensive
Diseases kill of local Native American tribes
9,395,000
Origins of the Slave Trade

10. Middle Passage- the name for voyages that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.

11. Middle Passage Ship

12. Statistics on Slave Ships
Journey: Lasts 3-6 weeks
10-20% of Africans died on voyage
Families broken at auctions
Adolescent Males between the ages of 18 – 25 were the most expensive
Women were prized because they could reproduce and add to their master’s wealth
Statistics on Slave Ships

13. Effects of the Slave Trade
Atlantic Slave trade continues for 400 years
15 to 20 Million Africans shipped to Americas
The labor of African slaves helped build the economies of the American colonies
African Diaspora- the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe due to the slave trade
Effects of the Slave Trade

14. As a result of the Age of Exploration, European knowledge & influence of the world increased greatly