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EXPLORATION & EXPANSION

EXPLORATION & EXPANSION. Chapter 13 Wieczerzak. What was their motives for exploring?. GLORY. GOD. GOLD. Why did Europe need a cheaper trade route to Asia?. ?. Museum of St. Sophia (Hagia Sophia). Istanbul, Turkey. Cut out the middle man!.

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EXPLORATION & EXPANSION

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  1. EXPLORATION & EXPANSION Chapter 13 Wieczerzak

  2. What was their motives for exploring? • GLORY • GOD • GOLD

  3. Why did Europe need a cheaper trade route to Asia? ?

  4. Museum of St. Sophia (Hagia Sophia). Istanbul, Turkey Cut out the middle man!

  5. What products did the European merchants want from the East? • Spices • Preserve & flavor foods/ medicinal/ perfumes • Precious metals. Of course!

  6. EAST What country took the lead in exploration? • Portugal • 1420 Prince Henry The Navigator sponsored sailors to sail along the coast of Africa.

  7. The Gold Coast • Discovered a new source of gold.

  8. Portuguese • Bartholomeu Dias • 1488 • Rounded the southern tip of Africa • Cape of Good Hope

  9. Portuguese • Vasco Da Gama (1498) First of many profitable trips!

  10. Portuguese gained control of the spice trade • 1509 Portuguese destroyed a Turkish (Muslim) & Indian fleet off the coast of India • Portuguese seized control of the port of Melaka. (set up trading posts) • This helped destroy Arab control of the spice trade.

  11. What new technology did these explorers use to aid them on their trips? Astrolabe Caravel Cartography – map making Compass

  12. WEST Christopher Columbus Spain’s search for spices • In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue… • set sail for Asia by traveling • Hispaniola • Isles of the Caribbean 4 trips!!!

  13. How did the Spanish & Portuguese avoid any problems over land claims? • Pope Alexander VI set a Line of Demarcation, giving to Spain rights to any land west of the line and to Portugal, rights to any land east of the line.

  14. What were the Spanish conquerors of the Americas called? • Conquistadors • Hernan Cortes • Francisco Pizarro

  15. Spanish Empire • Encomienda • Native Americans were used for laborers. On the plantations and mines. • Violence • Forced labor • Starvation • Disease • Wiped out nearly all of the Native Americans.

  16. The Slave Trade What discovery brought about the need for more slaves? (think: exploration!) The discovery of the Americas in the 1490’s. Sugarcane plantations

  17. Triangular trade

  18. What was the Purpose of the triangular trade. • Provided a market for: • 1 – European goods to (Africa). • 2 - Slaves from Africa to (the Americas). • 3 – Raw materials from the Americas to (Europe).

  19. Growth of slave trade • In roughly 300 years some 10-11 million Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves. How did they get there? The Middle Passage! Why so many? Death rates on the trip over and the need to replenish their workforce

  20. How did the slave trade effect the people of Africa? • Depopulated large areas. • Increased warfare. • Destroyed families.

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