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Early Exploration and Colonization

Early Exploration and Colonization. Objective #1. Analyze the changing world situation and its impact on the colonization effort in America. Objective #2. Identify and explain reasons for European exploration. Objective #3.

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Early Exploration and Colonization

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  1. Early Exploration and Colonization

  2. Objective #1 • Analyze the changing world situation and its impact on the colonization effort in America.

  3. Objective #2 • Identify and explain reasons for European exploration.

  4. Objective #3 • Explain the changes and conflicts that occurred when the diverse worlds of Europe, Africa, and the Americans collided after 1492.

  5. What motivated Spanish and Portuguese Expansion? • Gold • Look in Africa • Money for industrial advancement • Renaissance: Science and technology • The royal coffers • 15th c.: European mines running low • Eastward trade routes blocked by Ottoman Turks

  6. What motivated Spanish and Portuguese Expansion? • Glory • Fierce competition to add to empire • Nationalism • Renaissance inspired many people to explore and seek individual glory

  7. What motivated Spanish and Portuguese Expansion? • Spices • Food preservation • Columbus looked for western trade route to Asia

  8. What motivated Spanish and Portuguese Expansion? • Christianity • Catholic Spain and Portugal • Christianize the Asians

  9. Portugal Took Early Lead • Superior technology • Examples: • Prince Henry the Navigator

  10. Portugal and Africa • Trade in gold, ivory and slaves • 40,000 slaves taken from Africa before discovery of America • Work Portuguese sugar plantations • Modern plantation system

  11. Christopher Columbus • Convinced he could reach Indies by sailing West. • Landed in the Bahamas in 1492. • Brought cinnamon, gold, coconuts, slaves back to Spain

  12. Early Triangle Trade

  13. Native Americans • 1492: 50 million people inhabited North and South America • Very diverse • Incas • Mayans • Aztecs

  14. Native American Advancements • Agricultural advancements • Complex irrigation systems • Some alliances (more so in the South)

  15. Colonization (15th-17th c.) • Spain and Portugal • Treaty of Tordesillas • Line of Demarcation • Europeans bring disease to N. America • 90% of Natives wiped out.

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