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A GE OF D ISCOVERY 1394-1600 Europeans had developed a taste for Eastern goods. Trade centers like...
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AGE OF DISCOVERY 1394-1600 Europeans had developed a taste for Eastern goods. Trade centers like Genoa, Pisa and Venice flourished Overland route was slow and difficult.
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AGE OF DISCOVERY
1394-1600Europeans had developed a taste for Eastern goods.
Trade centers like Genoa, Pisa and Venice flourished
Overland route was slow and difficult.
PORTUGAL
Prince Henry the NavigatorSlave trade startedSugar Plantations in Canary Islands.
Vasco da Gama the first to India via ocean.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Sails for Spain in 1492Three ships
Two are caravelsFerdinand and IsabellaConvinced Earth is a sphereGrossly underestimates distance to Asia
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
San SalvadorReturned with 7 nativesAdmiral of the Ocean Sea
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS 1494
Between Spain and Portugal
Line drawn on the map by the Pope.
Unsure of Geography
FERDINAND MAGELLAN
First to circumnavigate the globe.
CC was wrong New World is not Asia.
New World becomes its own destination
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
Transatlantic trade of goods, people and ideas that continues to this day.
Who does the Columbian Exchange favor?
SPANISH CONQUEST
1519 Cortes into MexicoPizzarro into Peru
GodGoldGlory
PEOPLE
All colonies in the western hemisphere are shaped by race and ethnicity.
All men are not equal.
PEOPLE
Peninsulares: 1-2%
Creoles:1-2 %
Mestizos: 4-5%
PEOPLE
Indian population falls by 90% by 1570.
African slaves would be necessary.
1565 St. Augustine first permanent settlement in US.
