Age of Exploration

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Age of Exploration

• Chapter 17

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Why Explore?
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Why Explore?

• Three Gs
• Curiosity
• Crowding
• Technology
• Spices and Silk

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Technology
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Portugal Leads the Charge!
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Portugal Leads the Charge!

• Sailed down coast of Africa in search of gold and
  spices
• Prince Henry the Navigator- school
• Dias Cape of Good Hope
• De Gama- rounded Cape, sailed to India
• Columbus- sailed for Spain-western route to
  Asia-Hispaniola
• Amerigo Vespucci- explored eastern seaboard
• Magellan circumnavigated the globe-sailed for
  Spain

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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Age of Conquerers

• Brazil slaves from Africa imported to work
  plantations
• Mexico Cortes- believed to be God
  Quetzalcoatl-showered w/gold, takes over
  Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)
• Mayans- civilized
• Peru Pizarro-capture Atahualpa-ransom
  paid-killed anyway
• West Indies- Natives encomienda system, later
  slaves

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Mayans
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Incas - Peru
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Aztecs
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Other Colonists

• Dutch Indonesia, New York, South Africa
• French Eastern US and Canada
• Verrazano-east coast including Hudson River
• Cartier-Montreal
• Champlain-Quebec
• La Salle Mississippi River valley
• Also St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique
• England East Coast Canada and US
• Cabot Newfoundland
• Jamestown, Plymouth,
• Jamaica

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Commercial Systems

• Enslavement of natives
• Encomienda system
• Indentured servants
• Importation of slaves from Africa, later islands
  led to Triangular trade Middle Passage
• Trading Companies, Joint Stock Companies
• Mercantilism and Columbia Exchange

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Enslavement from Africa