honors world history- early explorations

1. Europeans Explore
the East
Chapter 3 Sec. 1
...WEST

2. Age of Exploration
Wanted a direct sea route to Asia
Opportunity for huge profits
New technology improved sea travel
Caravel ship
New cartography skills
Hour glass, compass, and astrolabe

4. Early Travelers
Portugal
 First country to venture into Atlantic
 Proved you could sail around Africa
Under Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain
joined Portugal in the race to Asia
Columbus landed in Caribbean
 Thought he was in India

5. Magellan
 1519-Left with 250 me and
5 ships
 Spanish-Funded
 Named Pacific
 Magellan was killed in Philippines
 1522-18 men and 1 ship return
 Proved world was round, much
larger than originally thought, and
no feasible trade route west.

6. Portugal
Concerned more about trade than
colonization
In 1500’s, Portugal dominated
trade with Africa and India
Colonized Brazil

7. Spain
Two Goals:
Acquire wealth (Gold)
Convert natives to Christianity
Conquistadors conquered large
American civilizations
Cortez-Aztecs; Pizarro-Incan

8. Spain (cont.)
By the 1600’s controlled much of N. &
S. America and the West Indies
Native American population declined
Mistreatment
 European Disease
To replace them, Spanish began
bringing over Africans to do work

9. The Netherlands
In 1600’s, the Dutch pushed
Portugal out of Asia
 Amsterdam became the major
trade city
Large Navy

10. France
French went to North America
and the Caribbean for trade
Looked for a Northwest Passage
Jesuit missionaries converted
natives

11. England
Established colonies to provide
raw materials/religious freedom
Early N. Amer. Colonies included
Jamestown and Plymouth
Pushed Native American tribes
west

13. The Atlantic Slave Trade:
Trade Triangle
 In 1600’s, European territories
based economies on slave labor
 European ships carried
manufactured goods to Africa for
slaves.
 The ships took the slaves to the
Americas and sold them.
 The ships would bring back rum,
sugar and molasses

15. Ch. 4 Sec. 4
Columbian
Exchange and
Global Trade

16. Columbian Exchange
Europeans introduced new
foods to colonies around the
world
Expanded trade led to an
exchange of ideas, goods,
technology, people, and
diseases

17. The Commercial
Revolution
By the 1600’s the nation replaced
the city as the basic economic unit
Growth of capitalism
Gov’t chartered banks
Joint-stock companies

18. Mercantilism
State’s power depended on wealth
Colonies provided:
 gold and silver
 raw materials
 a new market for goods