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AGE OF EXPLORATION

AGE OF EXPLORATION. 1500-1800. Age of Exploration. Objectives: Explain three main motives for exploration Describe the impact of Europeans on the peoples of Africa. Why were spices of the East needed? Chief motives for Europeans expansion Portugal and Prince Henry “The Navigator”.

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AGE OF EXPLORATION

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  1. AGE OF EXPLORATION 1500-1800

  2. Age of Exploration • Objectives: • Explain three main motives for exploration • Describe the impact of Europeans on the peoples of Africa

  3. Why were spices of the East needed? • Chief motives for Europeans expansion • Portugal and Prince Henry “The Navigator”

  4. Bartholomeu Dias (Port.) • Vasco Da Gama (Port.) • Christopher Columbus (Spain) 1492 • 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas • Line of demarcation

  5. John Cabot - explored east coast of Northern new world • Amerigo Vespucci • Conquistadors • Colony • mercantilism

  6. Can you now answer? • Objectives: • Explain three main motives for exploration • Describe the impact of Europeans on the peoples of Africa

  7. Africa in Transition1525-1600 • Objectives: • What was the different uses of slaves in Europe and middle east vs. Americas?

  8. Plantations • -lg. agricultural estates of single crop • Triangular trade • -Europe, Africa, Americas

  9. Middle Passage Why did slave owners of Caribbean encourage their slaves not to have children?

  10. Effects of the slave trade in Africa • -devastating to areas in W. Af. Led to depopulation, taking young/strongest men and boys from communities, led to increased warfare as Af. Leaders were armed with European weapons from trade.

  11. Africa in Transition1525-1600 • Objectives: • What was the different uses of slaves in Europe and middle east vs. Americas?

  12. Summary • Draw out as neat and detailed as possible, a diagram to represent the Triangular trade including the middle passage, what was exchanged, label all regions involved and add color

  13. South East Asia & Spice Trade • Objective: • Why were Europeans so interested in S. E. Asia and how did S. E. Asians feel about this? • Explain effects of main lands vs. islands on foreigners and religion

  14. What religion is mainly being practiced in the Far East and South East Asia? -Islam & Christianity attracting converts esp. in Philippines Politically: Islamic sultans were found on Malay Peninsula/Indonesia and staffed his bureaucracy with Muslim aristocrats. • Bureaucracy- body of non-elective gov’t officials

  15. South East Asia & Spice Trade • Objective: • Why were Europeans so interested in S. E. Asia and how did S. E. Asians feel about this? • Explain effects of main lands vs. islands on foreigners and religion

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