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Age of Exploration and Colonization AP World History Mr. Charnley
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Age of Exploration European Interest Crusades Mongol Empire Ottoman Empire Italian City-States Silk Roads and Indian Ocean Trade Early Efforts 10 th century Vikings Abandoned due to hostility of native tribes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yqe hGlg6m8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yqe hGlg6m8
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Age of Exploration European disadvantages Ottoman Empire Inferior technology Lack of funding Few high-demand domestic products Rise of Europe Chinese technology European metalworking Cartography
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Portuguese Exploration Portugal Henry the Navigator Academy for exploration Gathered team of experts Sponsored voyages to Africa Bartholomieu Dias 1488 Cape of Good Hope Vasco da Gamma 1498 reached India inferior trade goods Clashed with Muslim merchants and local Indians India, China, Africa, Japan, Brazil
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Spanish Exploration Spain Reconquista (1492) Ferdinand and Isabella Christopher Columbus 1492-1496 Sailed west to reach India and China Mistook Caribbean Islands for East Asia
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Spanish Exploration Amerigo Vespucci 1497-1504 Proved Americas were a separate land mass from Asia
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Spanish Exploration Vasco de Balboa 1510-1513 First European to reach Pacific Ocean “South Sea”
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Spanish Exploration Conquest of Mexico 1518 -20 Hernan Cortes Defeated Aztec Empire
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Spanish Exploration Ferdinand Magellan (1519- 1521) Portuguese Straits of Magellan (Cape Horn of South America) Crew completed first Circumnavigation of the earth
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Spanish Exploration Juan Ponce De Leon 1493: member of Columbus’s second voyage Expedition to Florida (1513) Searching for Fountain of Youth
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Spanish Exploration Conquest of South America 1532 Francisco Pizarro Conquered Incan Empire
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Spanish Exploration Hernando De Soto 1533: participated in Spanish conquest of Incan Empire 1539 – 1543 led expeditions in southern area of present-day US First European to cross Mississippi River
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Age of Exploration Northern Europe 17 th century Religious motives Political climate Improved naval technology ‘Northwest Passage’
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French Exploration France Reached Canada (1534) Canada, Great Lakes, Mississippi River Valley Jacques Cartier 1534 - 1542 St. Lawrence River Samuel de Champlain 1603 - 1620 Lake Champlain Great Lakes Quebec New France
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English Exploration Northwest Passage John Cabot (1497) = Newfoundland Henry Hudson (1607 – 08, 1610 - 11) = Hudson’s Bay, Hudson River
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English Exploration Sir Walter Raleigh Sponsored voyages and colonial expeditions to North America Colony at Roanoke Island 1585-1590 Ultimately failed Settlers disappeared Executed in 1618 for violating truce with Spanish
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English Exploration Sir Francis Drake English privateer Raided Spanish fleets and colonies 1579 circumnavigated the earth 1585-86 led expeditions to Roanoke Island Colony
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Age of Exploration Netherlands Independence from Spanish Habsburgs (17 th century) Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, Africa Englishman Henry Hudson claimed present-day New York area for Dutch
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Age of Exploration Financing Joint-stock companies Dutch East India Company = China British East India Company = India monopoly
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Age of Exploration The Columbian Exchange Disease Agriculture Livestock European Commercialism Battle of Lepanto (1571): Europeans became dominant naval power Europeans set up coastal trading posts in Africa and Asia
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