AGE OF EXPLORATION

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AGE OF EXPLORATION

• 1500-1800

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Age of Exploration

• Objectives
• Explain three main motives for exploration
• Describe the impact of Europeans on the peoples
  of Africa

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• Why were spices of the East needed?
• Chief motives for Europeans expansion
• Portugal and Prince Henry The Navigator

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• Bartholomeu Dias (Port.)
• Vasco Da Gama (Port.)
• Christopher Columbus (Spain) 1492
• 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas
• Line of demarcation

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• John Cabot - explored east coast of Northern new
  world
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Conquistadors
• Colony
• mercantilism

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Can you now answer?

• Objectives
• Explain three main motives for exploration
• Describe the impact of Europeans on the peoples
  of Africa

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Africa in Transition1525-1600

• Objectives
• What was the different uses of slaves in Europe
  and middle east vs. Americas?

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• Plantations
• -lg. agricultural estates of single crop
• Triangular trade
• -Europe, Africa, Americas

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Middle Passage
Why did slave owners of Caribbean encourage their
slaves not to have children?
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Effects of the slave trade in Africa

• -devastating to areas in W. Af. Led to
  depopulation, taking young/strongest men and boys
  from communities, led to increased warfare as Af.
  Leaders were armed with European weapons from
  trade.

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Africa in Transition1525-1600

• Objectives
• What was the different uses of slaves in Europe
  and middle east vs. Americas?

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Summary

• Draw out as neat and detailed as possible, a
  diagram to represent the Triangular trade
  including the middle passage, what was exchanged,
  label all regions involved and add color

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South East Asia Spice Trade

• Objective
• Why were Europeans so interested in S. E. Asia
  and how did S. E. Asians feel about this?
• Explain effects of main lands vs. islands on
  foreigners and religion

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• What religion is mainly being practiced in the
  Far East and South East Asia?
• -Islam Christianity attracting converts esp.
  in Philippines
• Politically Islamic sultans were found on
  Malay Peninsula/Indonesia and staffed his
  bureaucracy with Muslim aristocrats.
• Bureaucracy- body of non-elective govt officials

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South East Asia Spice Trade

• Objective
• Why were Europeans so interested in S. E. Asia
  and how did S. E. Asians feel about this?
• Explain effects of main lands vs. islands on
  foreigners and religion

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Review

• 1. P.205 Critical Thinking (4 questions)
• 2. P.206 Assessment 1-19
• 3. Writing about History 22
• 4. Pg.206 Key facts 10 - 19