1. Aztec and IncA Use your notes and pages 388-390.
Create a chart summarizing the religion, economy and government of the Aztec and Inca Empire. See white board to help you set-up your chart.

3. China
Silk Road
Italy
Ottoman
Empire
India
India
Spice Islands

4. European Exploration
Marco Polo returned from China with many goods desired by Europeans

5. European Exploration
After the Crusades, trade with the east was controlled by Italy

6. European Exploration
Trade paid for the Renaissance

7. X China Portugal Spain Silk Road Italy Ottoman Empire India India
Spice Islands

8. European Exploration Motives for European Exploration 1. Gold
Trade with Asia was profitable
Search for gold

9. European Exploration 2. Glory Limited opportunities in Europe 3. God
Desire to spread Christianity

10. European Exploration
Technology made sea exploration possible
Compass

11. European Exploration
Improved maps (longitude and latitude)

13. European Exploration
Improved ships

16. European Exploration
Improved cannon

17. EARLY EXPLORATION WAS DOMINATED BY PORTUGAL AND SPAIN
India

18. Explorers
Prince Henry the Navigator- established a school in Portugal to train sailors

19. Explorers
Bartolomeu Dias- discovered the tip of Africa

20. China
Portugal
Spain X
India
India
Spice Islands

21. Explorers
Vasco de Gama- sailed around Africa to reach India

23. Explorers
Christopher Columbus- sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the New World.

24. Columbus Quote
“The islanders came to the ships’ boats, swimming and bringing us parrots ad balls of cotton thread…which they exchanged for….glass beads and hawk bells. …they took and gave of what they had very willingly, but it seemed to me that they were poor in every way. They bore no weapons, nor were they acquainted with them, because when I showed them swords they seized them by the edge and so cut themselves from the ignorance.”

25. Columbus- Hero or Villain?
bermingham.blogspot.com/2016/02/hero-of-villain- perspectives-on-columbus.html
Decide if the videos being shown are biased or unbiased.
After viewing these videos and learning about Columbus in your notes, would you consider Columbus to be a hero or villain? Why or why not?

27. Explorers Ferdinand Magellan- sailed around the world.
Circumnavigation -the complete navigation around the world.

28. Reflection Questions
1. What were the causes and motivations for European Exploration? 2. What do you think the impact exploration will have on the native peoples of the New World?

29. Explorers
Amerigo Vespucci- realized that Columbus had discovered a “New World”

30. China
Portugal
Spain X
India
India
Spice Islands

32. Why were the Spanish able to conquer the Aztec empire?
Spanish- 500 men
Population of the Aztec Empire- 5,000,000

34. Why were the Spanish able to conquer the Aztec empire?
1. The Spanish had metal weapons
2. The Spanish brought diseases
3. Tribute states helped the Spanish

37. Why were the Spanish able to conquer the inca empire?
Spanish- 200 men
Population of the Inca Empire
12,000,000

38. Why were the Spanish able to conquer the inca empire?
Spanish- 200 men
Population of the Inca Empire
12,000,000

40. Spanish Exploration
The Spanish found large amounts of gold in the New World

42. Spanish Exploration
The Spanish enslaved the Native Americans to grow crops and mine silver and gold.

43. Spanish Exploration Disease and abuse killed many enslaved Natives.
Labor shortage led to the need for slave labor

45. The Great Circuit Metal goods were carried from Europe to Africa.
Slaves were carried from Africa to the New World.

50. The Great Circuit
Sugar, tobacco and gold were carried from the New World to Europe

51. The Great Circuit
Europe
Metal Goods
Africa

52. The Great Circuit
North America
Europe
Africa
Slaves

53. North America Africa The Great Circuit Sugar Tobacco Gold Silver
Europe
Sugar
Tobacco
Gold
Silver
Africa

54. VOCABULARY Mercantilism- wealth is power Bullion- gold and silver
Exports- goods sold by a country
Imports- goods bought by a country
Balance of trade- exports vs. imports

55. Effects of Spanish Exploration
Wealth from the New World made Spain the most powerful country in Europe
Gold and silver from the New World caused inflation in Europe

56. Vocabulary
Columbian Exchange- the exchange of living things between the Old and New World.