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What fueled the Age of Exploration and how did change the balance of power in the world?
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Earlier Explorations 1.Islam & the Spice Trade Moluccas 2.A New Player Europe Marco Polo, 1271 3. Chinese Admiral Zheng He & the Ming “Treasure Fleet” W
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Map of the Known World pre- 1492
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Motives for European Exploration 1.Crusades by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. 2.Renaissance curiosity about other lands and peoples. 3.Reformation refugees & missionaries. 4.Gold 5.Technological advances. 6.Fame and fortune. W
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New Maritime Technologies Hartman Astrolabe (1532) Better Maps Sextant Mariner’s Compass W
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New Technology Caravel Wheel lock Musket W
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Prince Henry, the Navigator Started School for Navigation, 1419
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Columbus [1451-1506]
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Columbus’ Four Voyages
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Other Voyages of Exploration
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Ferdinand Magellan: 1st Circumnavigation of the World: Early 16 c
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Impact of European Expansion 1.Native American populations ravaged by disease. ► Taino became extinct ► 1519 – 26 million ► 1605 – 2 million 2.11-15 million Africans enslaved 3.Spread of Christianity W
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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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 Olive COFFEE BEAN Banana Onion Turnip Honeybee Grape Peach SUGAR CANE Oats Citrus Fruits Pear Wheat HORSE Cattle Sheep Pigs Smallpox Flu Typhus Measles Malaria Diptheria Whooping Cough Rice Barley
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Spanish Treasure from the Americas! 10.5 million dollars of gold & silver between 1581 and 1600
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European Empires in the Americas
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4.Columbian Exchange 5.Influx of gold & silver into Europe = inflation. 10.5 million from 1581-1600 6.Deepened European rivalries. 7.Funding voyages of exploration led to Joint-stock companies Entrepreneurs Mercantilism Capitalism W
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New Colonial Rivals
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Triangular Trade
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8. New Patterns of World Trade W
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