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Warm Up 8/31/2015 Place GGS Episode 2 in Homework Tray!
Any other work done to catch up…place in class work tray. Have paper ready for notes/brief lecture.
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European Explorations
The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests By: Ms. Sarah Hatchell September
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Earlier Explorations Islam & the Spice Trade Malacca
A New Player Europe Nicolo, Maffeo, & Marco Polo, 1271 Expansion becomes a state enterprise monarchs had the authority & the resources. Better seaworthy ships. Chinese Admiral Zheng He & the Ming “Treasure Fleet”
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A Map of the Known World, pre- 1492
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Motives for European Exploration
Crusades by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. Renaissance curiosity about other lands and peoples. Reformation refugees & missionaries. Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue. Technological advances. Fame and fortune.
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New Maritime Technologies Better Maps [Portulan]
Hartman Astrolabe (1532) Mariner’s Compass Sextant
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New Weapons Technology
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Prince Henry, the Navigator
School for Navigation, 1419
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Museum of Navigation in Lisbon
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Portuguese Maritime Empire
Exploring the west coast of Africa. Bartolomeo Dias, 1487. Vasco da Gama, 1498. Calicut. Admiral Alfonso de Albuquerque (Goa, 1510; Malacca, 1511).
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Zheng He’s Voyages In 1498, Da Gama reached Calcutta, China’s favorite port!
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Christofo Colon [ ]
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Columbus’ Four Voyages
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Other Voyages of Exploration
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Ferdinand Magellan & the First Circumnavigation of the World: Early 16c
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Atlantic Explorations Looking for “El Dorado”
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The First Spanish Conquests: The Aztecs
vs. Hernan Cortez Montezuma II
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The Death of Montezuma II
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Mexico Surrenders to Cortez
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The First Spanish Conquests: The Incas
vs. Francisco Pizarro Atahualpa
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Slaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar Mill
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Warm Up 9/8/15 Turn in GGS into Homework Tray
Clear desks, grab writing instrument! Map Quiz
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Why would the 'Columbian Exchange' be considered the tsunami of unintentional "bio-terrorism"??
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The “Columbian Exchange”
Squash Avocado Peppers Sweet Potatoes Turkey Pumpkin Tobacco Quinine Cocoa Pineapple Cassava POTATO Peanut TOMATO Vanilla MAIZE Syphilis Trinkets Liquor GUNS Olive COFFEE BEAN Banana Rice Onion Turnip Honeybee Barley Grape Peach SUGAR CANE Oats Citrus Fruits Pear Wheat HORSE Cattle Sheep Pigs Smallpox Flu Typhus Measles Malaria Diptheria Whooping Cough
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Cycle of Conquest & Colonization Official European Colony!
Explorers Conquistadores Official European Colony! Missionaries Permanent Settlers
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Treasures from the Americas!
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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The Slave Trade Existed in Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
Portuguese replaced European slaves with Africans. Sugar cane & sugar plantations. First boatload of African slaves brought by the Spanish in 1518. 275,000 enslaved Africans exported to other countries. Between 16c & 19c, about 10 million Africans shipped to the Americas.
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Slave Ship “Middle Passage”
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“Coffin” Position Below Deck
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African Captives Thrown Overboard Sharks followed the slave ships!
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European Empires in the Americas
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The Colonial Class System
Peninsulares Creoles Mestizos Mulattos Native Indians Black Slaves
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Administration of the Spanish Empire in the New World
Encomienda or forced labor. Council of the Indies. Viceroy. New Spain and Peru. Papal agreement.
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The Influence of the Colonial Catholic Church Guadalajara Cathedral
Our Lady of Guadalupe Guadalajara Cathedral Spanish Mission
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The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 & The Pope’s Line of Demarcation
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Father Bartolome de Las Casas
New Laws 1542
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New Colonial Rivals Portugal lacked the numbers and wealth to dominate trade in the Indian Ocean. Spain in Asia consolidated its holdings in the Philippines. First English expedition to the Indies in 1591. Surat in NW India in 1608. Dutch arrive in India in 1595.
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New Colonial Rivals
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Impact of European Expansion
Native populations ravaged by disease. Influx of gold, and especially silver, into Europe created an inflationary economic climate. [“Price Revolution”] New products introduced across the continents [“Columbian Exchange”]. Deepened colonial rivalries.
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5. New Patterns of World Trade
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