The Beginnings of Our Global Age

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The Beginnings of Our Global Age

• 1415 - 1796

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Portugal

• Prince Henry
• Find direct route to Asia
• Spread Christianity
• Find valuable riches
• Funded training, cartographers, and ship building
• Est. Portugal out as a leader

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Portugal

• Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope
• Da Gama
• Found direct route
  to Asia
• Forcefully opened
  up Calicut, India
• Gains wealth
  from spices

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Portugal

• Gains strength in Africa
• Established ports for ships
• Began extensive trade
• Stayed along coast
• Mombassa and Malindi on East African coast

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Portugal

• By the 1600s Portugals power declined
• Lost most power they had in global areas

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Spain

• Desired to catch up to Portugal
• Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored voyages
• Bring back greatness
• Inquisition hurt Spain
• Line of Demarcation
• Showed Spain and Portugal
  as dominant explorers
  
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• W Spain
• E Portugal

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Spain

• Christopher Columbus
• Desired to reach Asia by sailing west
• Reached the Caribbean islands
• West Indies
• Coined the term Indians

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Spain

• Balboa
• Reached Central America
• Aided by Natives he traveled across land
• Found the South Sea
• Actually the Pacific Ocean

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Spain

• Magellan
• Reached southern tip of S. America
• Found waterway to the South Sea
• Strait of Magellan to Pacific Ocean
• Reached Philippines
• Killed by natives
• Crew circumnavigated
  the globe!

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Spain

• Seizes the Philippines
• Independent - non united islands
• Easy to take over
• Locked a presence in Asia
• Key trade ports for Spain

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Northwest Passage
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Northeast Passage
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The Netherlands

• Early 1500s newly independent
• Late 1500s European leader in commerce
• Dutch East India Company
• Sovereign powers with exploration
• Controlled a monopoly in the Spice Islands
• Cape Town
• Key location for trade
• Refreshing Station

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The Netherlands

• Henry Hudson
• Hudson Bay
• Hudson River
• New York
• Even old New York
  was once New.

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England

• Queen Elizabeth
• Support in education and exploration
• India
• Fought against French
• Successful at dominating India
• British military presence and sepoys
• Mughal Empire forced to pay taxes to England

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England

• John Cabot
• Explored coast
• Newfoundland

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France

• Champlain
• Established Quebec
• Cartier
• St. Lawrence River
• Marquette
• Navigated Northern Mississippi River
• Large control of fur trade

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Asia

• China
• Limited traders
• Heavily watched forced to leave each year
• Felt they had reached good heights without
  outside influences - why start now?
• Cultural conflicts
• Language barriers
• Customary differences

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Asia

• Korea
• Suffered attacks from Japan
• cities destroyed economic hardships
• Manchus (China) invade
• Korea established as a tributary state
• Korea isolated itself for nearly 250 years

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Asia

• Japan
• Traded with Europeans
• Feudalism in Japan
• Daimyo looking for power guns
• Christianity begins to take hold
• Tokugawa alarmed
• Threatened by Spanish takeover of Phil.
• Turned to isolation for nearly 200 years