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European Exploration & Conquest

W. European Exploration & Conquest. W. Earlier Explorations. Islam & the Spice Trade  Malaccas A New Player  Europe Marco Polo, 1271 Chinese Admiral Zheng He & the Ming “Treasure Fleet” . Map of the Known World pre- 1492. W. Motives for European Exploration.

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European Exploration & Conquest

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  1. W European Exploration & Conquest

  2. W Earlier Explorations • Islam & the Spice Trade  Malaccas • A New Player  Europe • Marco Polo, 1271 • Chinese Admiral Zheng He & the Ming “Treasure Fleet”

  3. Map of the Known Worldpre- 1492

  4. W Motives for European Exploration Crusades  by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. Renaissance  curiosity about other lands and peoples. Reformation  refugees & missionaries. Gold Technological advances. Fame and fortune. Gold, Glory, God

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

  6. New Technology W Caravel Wheel lock Musket

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

  8. Museum of Navigationin Lisbon

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

  10. Columbus [1451-1506]

  11. Columbus’ Four Voyages

  12. Other Voyages of Exploration

  13. Ferdinand Magellan: 1st Circumnavigation of the World:Early 16c

  14. Atlantic Explorations Looking for “El Dorado”

  15. The First Spanish Conquests:The Aztecs vs. Fernando Cortez Montezuma II

  16. The Death of Montezuma II

  17. Mexico Surrenders to Cortez

  18. The “Columbian Exchange”

  19. W Why would the “Columbian Exchange” be considered the tsunami of unintentional "bio-terrorism"??

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

  21. Treasurefrom the Americas! 35 million pesos between 1596-1600

  22. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

  23. Slaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar Mill

  24. European Empires in the Americas

  25. Triangular Trade

  26. Treaty of Tordesillas: Pope’s Line of Demarcation Spain Portugal

  27. W Father Bartolome de Las Casas Spanish Monk who protested the Spanish cruelty towards Native Americans New Laws  1542

  28. New Colonial Rivals

  29. W Impact of European Expansion • Native American populations ravaged by disease. • Taino became extinct • 1519 – 26 million • 1605 – 2 million • 11-15 million Africans enslaved • Spread of Christianity

  30. W • Columbian Exchange • Influx of gold & silver into Europe = inflation. • 10.5 million from 1581-1600 • Deepened European rivalries. • Funding voyages of exploration led to • Joint-stock companies • Entrepreneurs • Mercantilism  Capitalism

  31. W • New Patterns of World Trade

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