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Early Exploration: Motives, Consequences, and European Empires in the Americas

This study session focuses on the causes and effects of early exploration, including the motives of European explorers and the establishment of empires in the Americas. The session also covers the impact of new technologies and the development of trade routes.

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Early Exploration: Motives, Consequences, and European Empires in the Americas

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  1. Wonderful Wednesday, Sept. 2nd Warm-Up How do you think you did on your test? What did you do to study? Would you attend a study session if it were biweekly? Agenda: Warm-Up LEQ Prep Thesis Prep Home Fun: Write Thesis Statement FN: Early Exploration

  2. Mustang Monday, Sept 8, 2015 Warm-Up – Quietly work on your notes until all scantrons are passed out. Agenda: Put your essays in the basket Test Corrections Warm-up FN: Early Exploration Homework: Supplemental reading pgs 426-437 Online question

  3. Test Corrections Q – Most Italian city states during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries tended to be dominated by • Answer the question in 1 – 2 sentences • Be sure to include the question in your answer • Ex: Italian city-states during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries tended to be dominated by… • Use a book and notebook if you need to

  4. Wednesday, Sept 9, 2015 Today’s Words of Wisdom: The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. Walt Disney Warm-Up: Explain the significance of the development of new technology, such as the compass to early exploration and discover. 5+ sentences • Agenda: • Warm-up • FN: Early Exploration • Home Fun: • Terms – 26-32 • Finish any readings and question postings you need.

  5. The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests By: Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

  6. Topic Motives and consequences' of early exploration (no standard) Essential Question What were the causes and consequences of early exploration? Use this symbol to help you navigate through what you need to take notes on and what is just good to know.

  7. Earlier Explorations • Islam & the Spice Trade  Malacca • A New Player  Europe • Nicolo, Maffeo, & Marco Polo, 1271 • Expansion becomes a state enterprise  monarchs had the authority & the resources. • Better seaworthy ships. • Chinese Admiral Zheng He & the Ming “Treasure Fleet”

  8. Admiral Zheng He • Each ship was 400’ long and 160’ wide! 1371-1435

  9. A Map of the Known World,pre- 1492

  10. Motives for European Exploration Crusades  by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia. Renaissance  curiosity about other lands and peoples. Reformation  refugees & missionaries. Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue. Technological advances. Fame and fortune.

  11. New Maritime Technologies Look up and take notes on these items, what did they do? Why were they so important to exploration? Better Maps [Portulan] Hartman Astrolabe(1532) Mariner’s Compass Sextant

  12. New Weapons Technology

  13. Prince Henry, the Navigator • School for Navigation, 1419

  14. Portuguese Maritime Empire • Exploring the west coast of Africa. • Bartolomeo Dias, 1487. • Vasco da Gama, 1498. • Calicut. • Admiral Alfonso de Albuquerque (Goa, 1510; Malacca, 1511).

  15. Zheng He’s Voyages • In 1498, Da Gama reached Calcutta, China’s favorite port!

  16. Christofo Colon [1451-1506]

  17. Columbus’ Four Voyages

  18. Fantabulous Friday, September 11 Why not make your goals a part of your life so you can start achieving them with daily habits.  Matthew Lewis Browne, Better Habits: How to Build Good Habits and Make Them Stick  Warm-Up Why is it important for Americans to remember 9/11? 3-5 sentences Agenda: Warm-Up Healthy Note – importance of Relationships FN: Expansion of Democracy Home Fun: FN: Expansion of Democracy If you haven’t completed the question on google classroom it is due tonight at 10pm.

  19. The Importance of Relationships • Relationships fulfill your most important need of all – love and acceptance • Relationships are the place where your greatest joy comes from – giving • Only through relationships can you give lasting impact to others – what they say matters and we actually listen • Through relationships you have the people to support you in times of trouble – they provide guidance and encouragement. • Eventually, relationships are the only things that matter – as we grow older people have more regrets regarding people then things.

  20. Ferdinand Magellan & the First Circumnavigation of the World:Early 16c

  21. Other Voyages of Exploration

  22. Atlantic Explorations Looking for “El Dorado”

  23. The First Spanish Conquests:The Aztecs vs. Fernando Cortez Montezuma II

  24. The Death of Montezuma II

  25. Mexico Surrenders to Cortez

  26. The First Spanish Conquests: The Incas vs. Francisco Pizarro Atahualpa

  27. Slaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar Mill

  28. The “Columbian Exchange”

  29. Why would the 'Columbian Exchange' be considered the tsunami of unintentional "bio-terrorism"??

  30. Cycle of Conquest & Colonization Explorers Conquistadores OfficialEuropeanColony! Missionaries PermanentSettlers

  31. Treasuresfrom the Americas!

  32. European Empires in the Americas

  33. The Colonial Class System Peninsulares Creoles Mestizos Mulattos Native Indians Black Slaves

  34. Administration of the Spanish Empire in the New World • Encomienda or forced labor. • Council of the Indies. • Viceroy. • New Spain and Peru. • Papal agreement.

  35. The Influence of the Colonial Catholic Church Our Lady of Guadalupe Guadalajara Cathedral Spanish Mission

  36. The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 & The Pope’s Line of Demarcation

  37. Father Bartolome de Las Casas New Laws  1542

  38. New Colonial Rivals • Portugal lacked the numbers and wealth to dominate trade in the Indian Ocean. • Spain in Asia  consolidated its holdings in the Philippines. • First English expedition to the Indies in 1591. • Surat in NW India in 1608. • Dutch arrive in India in 1595.

  39. New Colonial Rivals

  40. Impact of European Expansion Native populations ravaged by disease. Influx of gold, and especially silver, into Europe created an inflationary economic climate.[“Price Revolution”] New products introduced across the continents [“Columbian Exchange”]. Deepened colonial rivalries.

  41. 5. New Patterns of World Trade

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