Podcast Review Age of Exploration

1. Podcast ReviewAge of Exploration A Segerdahl Production

2. What do you call a train loaded with toffee?

3. Reasons for European Exploration Have to… Able to… Wanted to… Compass Profit: Gold/silver Ottomans block routes Influence of Muslim Tech: Caravel Ships Astrolabe Spread religion Unfavorable balance Of trade (Asian products) Competition Glory Monarchs

4. Key Players Henry Columbus Da Gama Dias Cortes Pizarro Noble; Organized School for sailors Proposed Western route First to Reach India Reached Cape of Good Hope Aztecs Mexico Incas S. America Spanish Conquistador Portugal Spain Portugal Steel Weapons Writing/ Moveable Type Horses Govt Support

5. Exploring Nations Spain Portugal France England Dutch Direct Rule First: -Spice trade -Slave Trade -India Canada Mississippi Permanent Settlements Replace Portugal in Far East Council of Indies Massachusetts: Economics+ Religious freedom Viceroy Indirect: Using companies Most exploitive Brazil New Powers after 1600 Inflation—gold/silver Direct competitors (treaty of tordesillas) 1 major crop-sugar

6. New World Societies impacted by Exploration Aztecs Incas Pop. Decimated by disease Pizarro Cortes Valley of Mexico Andes Empire system Elaborate trade networks Isolated Polytheistic Cooler climate Humid Climate No formal written Language Hieroglyphs

7. International Slave Trade Origins Expansion Decline Portuguese Role of British Discovery of New World Firearms made Africans partners Idea of equality Natives were inadequate Industrial Age Slavery already existed Plantation system Owning slaves meant status Sugar/mining

8. New Economic Model beginning in 1500 Cores Peripheries Control the flow of trade Exploited in trade relationships Export expensive Finished goods Export cheap raw materials Locations of coercive labor systems Ship Goods Western Europe Americas

9. Vocab Side 1

10. Vocab Side 2

11. What do you call a train loaded with toffee? A Chew Chew Train