1. Effects/Impact on the New World & Europe
The Age of Exploration
Effects/Impact on
the New World & Europe

2. Reasons for Exploration…
Renaissance Values:
Secularism & Individualism led many to seek new goods to trade
Rise of Protestantism:
Led missionaries on journeys abroad to convert
New Technology
Caravel: new type of ship w/triangular sails
Astrolabe: enabled sailors to mark stars in sky
Compass: sailors tracked their direction

3. Portuguese & Spanish Domination
Prince Henry: Created 1st School of Sailing; helped discover Azores Islands & more!
Bartholomeu Dias: Reached Southernmost tip of Africa—Cape of Good Hope
Columbus: (explored for Spain) reached island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean; responsible for destruction of an entire race of native peoples; introduced new products to Europe from Americas

4. Spain vs. Portugal Who controls what land????
Pope Alexander VI found a solution in 1493.
Created the Line of Demarcation
Line of Demarcation: imaginary line drawn through the Atlantic Ocean
Land WEST = Spanish
Land EAST = Portuguese
Treaty of Tordesillas: agreement to move the line of demarcation a few degrees west

5. Who Colonized Where? Spanish- South & Central & North Americas.
Conquered the Aztec, Maya & Inca
Conquered the Anasazi & Olmec in southwest North America
French- Canada, Mississippi River Valley in
North America, & parts of Africa.
Traded with the Illinois, Huron, Algonquin & Cree tribes

6. Who Colonized, Where? English- Eastern coast of North America,
Africa, India & Australia
Fought with the Delaware, Miami, Iroquois & Cherokee in North America.
Portuguese- Brazil, South America & Africa

7. Effects of Exploration
Positive Effects:
Columbian Exchange: exchange of goods between Europe & Americas
America never knew of horses, cows, chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, donkeys or oxen
New plants such as wheat, barley, rye, oats, oranges, apples, bananas, coffee
Europe never knew of corn, tomatoes, squash, tobacco, cacao, potatoes

8. Effects of Exploration
Negative Effects
Epidemics: smallpox, measles, influenza were foreign to native Americans
75 years after Columbus—population on Hispaniola went from 250,000 to 500
Helped destroy entire empires—ie: Aztec Empire
Slave Trade
Discovery of areas in Africa led to importation of African slaves
Europeans imported native Americans for slaves
Europeans started plantations in America for cultivation...forced natives to be slaves