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The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests

The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests. Earlier Explorations. Islam & the Spice Trade  Malacca A New Player  Europe Nicolo, Maffeo, & Marco Polo, 1271 Expansion becomes a state enterprise  monarchs had the authority & the resources. Better seaworthy ships.

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The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests

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  1. The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests

  2. Earlier Explorations • Islam & the Spice Trade  Malacca • A New Player  Europe • Nicolo, Maffeo, & Marco Polo, 1271 • Expansion becomes a state enterprise  monarchs had the authority & the resources. • Better seaworthy ships. • Chinese Admiral Zheng He & the Ming “Treasure Fleet”

  3. A Map of the Known World,pre- 1492

  4. Motives for European Exploration Crusades  by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. Renaissance  curiosity about other lands and peoples. Reformation  refugees & missionaries. Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue. Technological advances. Fame and fortune.

  5. New Maritime Technologies Better Maps [Portulan] Hartman Astrolabe(1532) Mariner’s Compass Sextant

  6. New Weapons Technology

  7. Prince Henry, the Navigator • School for Navigation, 1419

  8. Museum of Navigationin Lisbon

  9. Portuguese Maritime Empire • Exploring the west coast of Africa. • Bartolomeo Dias, 1487. • Vasco da Gama, 1498. • Calicut. • Admiral Alfonso de Albuquerque (Goa, 1510; Malacca, 1511).

  10. Zheng He’s Voyages • In 1498, Da Gama reached Calcutta, China’s favorite port!

  11. Christopher Columbus [1451-1506]

  12. Columbus’ Four Voyages

  13. Other Voyages of Exploration

  14. Ferdinand Magellan & the First Circumnavigation of the World:Early 16c

  15. Atlantic Explorations Looking for “El Dorado”

  16. The First Spanish Conquests:The Aztecs vs. Hernan Cortez Montezuma II

  17. The Death of Montezuma II

  18. Mexico Surrenders to Cortez

  19. The First Spanish Conquests: The Incas vs. Francisco Pizarro Atahualpa

  20. Slaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar Mill

  21. Why would the 'Columbian Exchange' be considered the tsunami of unintentional "bio-terrorism"??

  22. The “Columbian Exchange”

  23. Cycle of Conquest & Colonization Explorers Conquistadores OfficialEuropeanColony! Missionaries PermanentSettlers

  24. Treasuresfrom the Americas!

  25. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

  26. The Slave Trade • Existed in Africa before the coming of the Europeans. • Portuguese replaced European slaves with Africans. • Sugar cane & sugar plantations. • First boatload of African slaves brought by the Spanish in 1518. • 275,000 enslaved Africans exportedto other countries. • Between 16c & 19c, about 10 million Africans shipped to the Americas.

  27. Slave Ship “Middle Passage”

  28. “Coffin” Position Below Deck

  29. African CaptivesThrown Overboard Sharks followed the slave ships!

  30. European Empires in the Americas

  31. The Colonial Class System Peninsulares Creoles Mestizos Mulattos Native Indians Black Slaves

  32. Administration of the Spanish Empire in the New World • Encomienda or forced labor. • Council of the Indies. • Viceroy. • New Spain and Peru. • Papal agreement.

  33. The Influence of the Colonial Catholic Church Our Lady of Guadalupe Guadalajara Cathedral Spanish Mission

  34. The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 & The Pope’s Line of Demarcation

  35. Father Bartolome de Las Casas New Laws  1542

  36. New Colonial Rivals • Portugal lacked the numbers and wealth to dominate trade in the Indian Ocean. • Spain in Asia  consolidated its holdings in the Philippines. • First English expedition to the Indies in 1591. • Surat in NW India in 1608. • Dutch arrive in India in 1595.

  37. New Colonial Rivals

  38. Impact of European Expansion Native populations ravaged by disease. Influx of gold, and especially silver, into Europe created an inflationary economic climate.[“Price Revolution”] New products introduced across the continents [“Columbian Exchange”]. Deepened colonial rivalries.

  39. 5. New Patterns of World Trade

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