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Chapter 14: Europe and The World: New Encounters.

Chapter 14: Europe and The World: New Encounters. Significant Individuals. Prince Henry of Portugal – Founded a school for navigators on the southwestern coast of Portugal. Allowed for the development of a maritime empire. Also, was the first step towards world exploration.

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Chapter 14: Europe and The World: New Encounters.

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  1. Chapter 14: Europe and The World: New Encounters.

  2. Significant Individuals • Prince Henry of Portugal – Founded a school for navigators on the southwestern coast of Portugal. Allowed for the development of a maritime empire. Also, was the first step towards world exploration. • Francisco Pizarro – The leader of a Spanish expedition to South America. Was responsible for the Incans demise. As well as being a landmark in New world exploration. • Ferdinand Magellan – First circumnavigation of earth, man!

  3. Key Events • October 12th, 1492– Columbus reaches the new world. Spanish interest in finding a trade route through Asia led for these expeditions. Columbus finding the new world allowed for new riches and land to be brought upon the civilizations of Europe.s • 1789 – French exports consisted for over 50 percent of profits. The cause of this was new world holdings. The result was the emergence of a truly global economy in the eighteenth century. • 1494, Treaty of Tordesillas – Cause was the desire for control of the new world. The result was Spain having most of America falling into their sphere.

  4. Abstracts • In less than three hundred years, the European Age of Exploration changed the shape of the world. • Spain controlled most of the new world due to the Treaty of Tordesillas. • The portuguese were largely responsible for starting new world exploration. As they were the first to venture further out than what they could see. • French loss in the Seven Years war allowed for the British to have complete control of the Indian continent. • Spanish Conquistadors were the cause of the decimation of new world inhabitants.

  5. Abstracts • The greedy plundering of resources and the brutal repression and enslavement were not balanced in the amount of good that was attempted. • Europeans had begun to change the face of the world and would continue on the new path they had started. • The creation of a global trade network which was dominated by Western powers. • The Portuguese were not in to colonization but largely for profits. Which allowed them to grow as the worlds richest state. • Missionary movements were relevant because it showed the Europeans attempts at good natured acts. This point is bunk.

  6. Key Themes and Movements • A theme – Exploration, The Europeans in the fourtheenth century can be seen exploring the new world. • A theme – Colonization – Many western poweres attempted to control the inhabitants of the new world. Largely the French and British. • Economic change – Profits were increasingly coming from exports rather than home grown products. French profits nearly quadrupled due to exports. • Political change – British gained control over the Indian continent from the result of the Seven Years War. • Social Movement – Christian missionaries to the new world

  7. Cultural and Intellecutal Movements: • Intellectual Movement – Exploration. They strive for improvements in exploring led to new inventions like the Mercator Projection, improved ships and compasses! • Cultural Movement maybe – Missionaries and the Jesuits. Jesuits in the new world converted inhabitants towards the religion.

  8. Neccessities: • Creations of a global trade network. • British Control over India as a result of the Seven Years’ War and the rivalry created between them. • Portuguese creation of the navigation school by Prince Henry. Kickstarted exploration.

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