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Transcript of 1500-1800 SectionSection ISection Section II Section Section III.
The Age of Exploration1500-1800
Section I
Section II
Section III
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Exploration: Motives and Means
Spice TradeReligious zealFame and FortunePolitical Ambition
Section one
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Portuguese Trading Empire
Vasco da Gamma
Discovered a route to India by sea which allowed him to trade for spice and Make a profit of several thousand percent.
Section one
Colonial and Trade Interests
Portugal maintained a colonial or trade interests in West Africa, India, and South America.
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Portuguese Trading EmpireSpice
Extremely profitable trade item from Southeast Asia that not only flavored foods,but also helped keep food fresh.
Gold Coast
The southern coast of West Africa was a new found source of gold. ThusIt became known to the Europeans as the Gold Coast.
Section one
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Gold Coast
Section one
AshantiGold Coast State
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Voyages to the AmericasTreaty of Tordesillas
Established a line of demarcation between Spanish and Portuguese territories to protect their claimed lands. It also gave Portugal control over its route around Africa, and it gave Spain rights to almost all of the Americas.
Section one
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Spain
Portugal
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Voyages to the AmericasChristopher Columbus-SpainWent to his grave believing he had reached Asia, when in fact he had found the major islands of the Caribbean and Honduras in Central America.
Section one
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Voyages to the AmericasJohn Cabot-England
A Venetian seaman who explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England. England had colonies or trade relations in both New England and parts of India
Section one
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New England Coast
Section one
John Cabot-England
The Dutch were the first European settlers in the Hudson River Valley
Dutch Settlers
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Spanish EmpireQueen IsabellaDeclared that all original inhabitants of the Americas were her subjects and granted the Spanish “encomienda” or the right to use Native Americans as laborers. Conquistadors were Spanish conquerors used by the queen to take over the Americas.Mercantilism
A set of principles that dominated economic thought during the 17th century. This included the belief that the prosperity of a nation depended on the amount of gold and silver the country held.
Section one
Balance of Trade
The difference in value between imports and exports over time.
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Spanish EmpireHernan Cortez
The Spanish conqueror of Mexico, that Aztec rulers fought Against his forces.
Section one
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“They longed and lusted for gold. Their bodies swelled with greed, and
their hunger was ravenous; they hungered like pigs for that gold.-
Aztec describing Spanish conquerors
1.Based on this quote, what might the Aztec have inferred about the Spaniards and their civilization?
2.What do you think they meant by “they hungered like pigs for that gold”?
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13-1 VocabularyColonyMercantilismConquistadorsBalance of trade“Encomienda”Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494Line of demarcationVasco de GammaJohn Cabot
Using your text define the following terms and names:
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Africa in an Age of Transition
Slave TradePolitical and Social Structures
Section two
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African Slave TradeOriginally taken to Southwest Asia as
domestic servantsEventually brought to the coast of Brazil to
grow SugarcaneSugarcane grown on large agricultural
estates known as “plantations”
Section two
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Growth-SourcesThe “triangular trade” connected Europe, Africa
and Asia, and the Americas
Section two
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Triangular Slave Route
Section two
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Growth-SourcesEuropean clothes and guns to Africa traded for
slaves with African slave merchants, which then were taken to the Americas and sold.
The journey from Africa to the Americas was known as the “Middle Passage” the point where most slaves died.
Section two
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Effects
Decline of the traditional African Political System of tribal clans including the depopulation of some areas. Deterioration of art and culture and an increase in warfare.
The society of Ibo of eastern Nigeria produced more slaves than anyone.
Indirect effects such as Moroccan forces attacking the weakened empire of Songhai or entire brilliant societies ruined like Benin.
The spread of Islam to North and West Africa.
Section two
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King Afonso of Congo wrote a letter to the King of Portugal in 1526 stating: “so great is the corruption that our country is being completely depopulated.”
King Afonso I1456-1545
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13-2 VocabularySugarcaneMiddle PassageTriangular TradeAshantiPlantationsKing AfonsoIbo
Using your text define the following terms and names:
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Southeast Asia and the Spice Trade
1500’s Southeast Asia was a fairly stable region with Buddhism as its predominant religion on the mainland states like Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
Muslim traders came to the Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago by the lure of spice trade.
Islam became their dominant religion.
This was where the most European influence would eventually take place do to weak central monarchies.
Section three
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Arrival of the Europeans to Southeast Asia
1511 the Portuguese seized Melaka, (Port City on Malay) and occupied the Moluccas. Known to the Europeans as the “Spice Islands”.
Dutch traders arrived with more funds and better organization and forced the Portuguese out of the spice trade in the early 1600’s. Limiting them to working trading posts.
The Dutch also forced out the English traders limiting them to a single port off the coast of Sumatra.
The Dutch seized Java to help protect their possessions in the east.
Dutch tried to limit the growth of Clove to one island and stop all others from growing it.
Section three
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Southeast Asia Map
Section three
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Political Systems in Southeast Asia
Mainland used the Buddhist style of government where the king was superior and served as a link to the universe.
Islamic Sultans ruled the Malay Peninsula and the small coastal states of the Indonesian Archipelago. He was viewed as a mortal with special qualities. He staffed his bureaucracy(a body of non-elected government officials) with aristocrats (A member of a ruling class or of the nobility).
Section three
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13-3 Vocabulary
MelakaMainland StatesThe MoluccasBureaucracyBuddhismJavaSumatra
Using your text define and or locate on a map the following terms :
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