1 / 17

The Age of exploration

The Age of exploration. Nathan B. Gilson Southwest Middle School. 1. Period 2. Present 3. Place Perspective What’s the PURPOSE?. 1. Period 2. Present 3. Place Perspective What’s the PURPOSE?. 1. Period 2. Present 3. Place Perspective What’s the PURPOSE?.

nevada-skinner
Download Presentation

The Age of exploration

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Age of exploration Nathan B. Gilson Southwest Middle School

  2. 1. Period 2. Present 3. Place Perspective What’s the PURPOSE? 1. Period 2. Present 3. Place Perspective What’s the PURPOSE? 1. Period 2. Present 3. Place Perspective What’s the PURPOSE? 1. Period 2. Present 3. Place Perspective What’s the PURPOSE?

  3. Connection to the renaissance • People begin to explore art, politics and sciences • Country leaders begin to be interested in finding/acquiring resources from outside of their own country again • Improve quality of live vs. Survival

  4. New Technology • Astrolabe • Enables navigation on an ocean, where no other landmarks exist besides the stars • Ocean-going vessels • Spanish galleon

  5. Christopher Columbus • Sails seeking a shorter route to india • Accidentally discovers the new world, but doesn’t realize it • Calls people “Indians” because he thinks he’s found a faster way to india

  6. Vasco Da Gama • First European to find a water-route to india • ½ of his crew died on the first trip • Returned several years later with an army, and forced the Indians to trade with him. • Makes Portugal one of the major colonial empires

  7. Triangle trade (Columbian exchange) • Uses trade winds in the atlantic ocean • Avoids empty cargo holds by trading items at each port • Maximizes profit • Uses the natural resources of each continent to maximize production and trade profit

  8. Alexander Falcolnbridge—surgeon for a slave ship “As soon as the wretched Africans, purchased at the fairs, fall into the hands of the black traders, they experience an earnest of those dreadful sufferings which they are doomed in future to undergo. And there is not the least room to doubt, but that even before they can reach the fairs, great numbers perish from cruel usage, want of food, travelling through inhospitable deserts, etc. They are brought from the places where they are purchased to Bonny, etc. in canoes; at the bottom of which they lie, having their hands tied with a kind of willow twigs, and a strict watch is kept over them. Their usage in other respects, during the time of passage, which generally lasts several days, is equally cruel. Their allowance of food is so scanty, that it is barely sufficient to support nature. They are, besides, much exposed to the violent rains which frequently fall here, being covered only with mats that afford but a slight defense; and as there is usually water at the bottom of the canoes, from their leaking, they are scarcely ever dry. “

  9. Slave trade (pt. 1) • Tribal conflicts led to wars between tribal groups within Africa • Choices for the winners When one side wins… • 1. Let everyone go • 2. Kill everyone • 3. Make everyone a slave, and trade them for guns to help you in future conflicts • Slaves are marched hundreds of miles to the coast in order to be sold to European traders.

  10. Alexander Falcolnbridge—surgeon for a slave ship “Nor do these unhappy beings, after they become the property of the Europeans (from whom as a more civilized people, more humanity might naturally be expected), find their situation in the least amended. Their treatment is no less rigorous. The men Negroes, on being brought aboard the ship, are immediately fastened together, two and two, by hand-cuffs on their wrists, and irons riveted on their legs. They are then sent down between the decks, and placed in an apartment partitioned off for that purpose. The women likewise are placed in a separate room, on the same deck, but without being ironed. And an adjoining room, on the same deck is besides appointed for the boys. Thus are they placed in different apartments. But at the same time, they are frequently stowed so close, as to admit of no other posture than lying on their sides. Neither will the height between decks, unless directly under the grating, permit them the indulgence of an erect posture; especially where there are platforms, which is generally the case.”

  11. Slave Trade (Pt. 2) • Middle passage • Slaves treated as cargo. • Overcrowded, and abused by ship captains • Hiding diseases • Preventing spread of diseases • cruelty

  12. Slave trade (pt. 3) • Sold to traders in American ports • Most slaves taken to Caribbean and south America • Sugar plantations need tropical climates (not in north America)

  13. Hernan cortes and the aztecs • Cortes looking to gain recognition and fortune in new world • Becomes governor in a Spanish colony • Explores mexico and discovers the Aztec empire

  14. Francisco pizarro and the inca • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfa7aExlPw

  15. smallpox • Most Europeans were immune to smallpox due to having had it earlier in their life • Indigenous people were not immune, and had never been exposed • Over 95% of Aztecs died in 100 years due to exposure to aztecs

  16. God, gold, & glory • The primary motivations of explorers (especially Spanish) during the 16th century • God—spread roman catholic beliefs to Indians • Gold—get rich • Glory—earn titles to become part of the nobility (closer to the king)

  17. Picture credit: • http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/4/7/6/2/3/webimg/324162283_o.jpg • http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jY3qbkeQBOs/TRknPhrfvOI/AAAAAAAABAk/7ecXAzuTRa0/s1600/Astrolabe.png • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Christopher_Columbus7.jpg • http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3p2UkLzUY2Q/TphOgy_MIfI/AAAAAAAAEzE/a8xIeZY8tjg/s1600/Partida+de+Vasco+da+Gama+para+a+%25C3%258Dndia.jpg • http://www.studiesweekly.com/online/images/pubimages/179/21/TheColumbianExchange.jpg • http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Ei0D2k7QXw/UZgBLxVi7LI/AAAAAAAAATU/KuADaBYfSB8/s1600/Atlantic+Ocean+currents.png • http://histclo.com/imagef/date/2007/04/slave-ship01s.jpg • http://ghana.buzzsouthafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/10/Slave-Trade.jpg • http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bEQ9Ca7ZRFI/T8zyGOE616I/AAAAAAAAIa4/QIq7FTv6c1g/s640/African+slave+ship+diagram.jpg • http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/gal/slaveauction.jpg • http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/slavetrade2.jpg • http://www.redargentina.com/comun/ActividadesEducativas/AmericaLatina/AmericadelNorte/Mexico/graficos/HernandoCortesvictoryOtumbaoverAztecsbattlebyManuelIbanez.jpg • http://world-civ-2012-13.wikispaces.com/file/view/smallpox600.jpg/368460468/360x269/smallpox600.jpg • http://dopeaztec.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/7/2/10723369/2434389_orig.jpg

More Related