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Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450

Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450. Toby Sims, Jake Prange , and Curtis Russo. Overview. Ships could move goods and people more quickly and cheaply than any form of overland travel possible at the time.

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Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450

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  1. Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 Toby Sims, Jake Prange, and Curtis Russo

  2. Overview • Ships could move goods and people more quickly and cheaply than any form of overland travel possible at the time. • Ships brought the ability to cross unknown waters, find new lands, open new trade systems, and establish new settlements.

  3. Pacific Ocean Expansion • Polynesians • Left no written records. • Reaching the eastern pacific: Expansion or accidental? • Accident- Lacked navigational devices to plot their way. • Expansion- Accident wouldn’t have brought sufficient number of men and women for founding a new colony. • Had 62-foot double canoes (Hokulea)

  4. Indian Ocean Expansion • Muslim Traders • Gave Indian Ocean Trade important boost. • Tied region together. (Shared common language, ethic, and law and actively spread their religion to distant cities) • Traders operated largely independent of the empires and states they served. • Ming Empire • Overthrew Mongols to reestablish predominance and prestige abroad. • Had expeditions motivated mostly by curiosity, to establish contacts with the people of the Indian Ocean, and to enhance China’s commerce. • “Treasure Ships” carried rich silks, precious metals, and gifts for distant rulers. • Eventually, stopped sending fleets in order to focus attention on internal matters within their vast empire.

  5. Atlantic Ocean Expansion • Vikings • Greatest mariners of the Atlantic. • No maps, used stars and heavens. • Attacked European settlements. • Discovered and settled many islands. (First in Iceland.) • Cold climate came in 1200- Greenland went into decline. • Europeans • Genoa and Portuguese expeditions discovered the islands of Madeira, the Azores, and the Canaries. • Africans • Mansa Muhammad sent 400 vessels in attempt to reach the other side of the Atlantic. They failed and for the second, larger expedition he went himself and they never returned. • Amerindian • Colonized West Indies. • The Arawak moved to Greater Antilles and Bahamas. • Carib took same route and overran most Arawak settlements.

  6. Comparing Atlantic Exploration ( • Routes: • Motives: • Sailing Techniques and Technologies: • How did the native peoples respond to expansion

  7. Sources Our textbook Ch 15 ;)

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