Chapter 6: Section 1 - Chippewa Falls Area Unified School...
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Chapter 6: Section 1
Exploration and Expansion
Reasons for Exploration
Gain access to Asia by Sea
Why attraction to Asia?
Marco Polo traveled to China in the 1200’s
Wrote a book called The Travels
Ottoman Turks cut off land route to Asia*
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3 Gs
Gold-Economic Motives
Expand trade to make more money
Spices in the East (India)
Silk and Porcelain (China)
Looking for precious metals (Gold & Silver)
Reasons for Exploration
God-Religion
Especially Spain & Portugal
Convert natives to Catholicism*
It was their duty to God
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Reasons for Exploration
Glory
Renaissance ideal of individual ability
“God, Glory, and Gold!”
Finished!
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1. Why did Europeans want to avoid traveling to Asia
over land?
2. What two countries spread the Catholic faith?
3. What goods did Europeans want to gain from India?
4. What goods did Europeans want to gain from
China?
New Technologies
Caravel ship
designed with Lateen (Arab) sails
Could sail into the wind
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Other technologies
Compass –determine direction N or S
Astrolabe
measured location
N & S of Equator
Astrolabe
Geared Astrolabe
Portugal led in Exploration
School of NavigationCreated by Prince Henry the Navigator
Hired only the best scholars
Studied winds, stars, currents, built ships
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Vasco da Gama
1st to get to India
Brought back spices
Magellan
Portuguese explorer
His ships were the 1st to circumnavigate the globe
took 3 yrs. to return
He was killed in the Philippines
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Treaty of Tordesillas
Signed in 1494
Line extending north and south through the Atlantic and South America
lands east belonged to Portugal
land west belonged to Spain
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Race to the Americas
After Columbus (1492) many countries wanted a piece of the new lands
John Cabot (England)– 1st to explore the New England coastline
Amerigo Vespucci
A Florentine who sailed with others on many voyages to the Americas
Wrote colorful descriptions of the Americas
The Americas are named after him
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The Spanish Empire
Conquistadors – Spanish conquerors
Herman Cortes – overthrew the Aztec Empire – 1520
Francisco Pizarro – overthrew the Inca Empire – 1532
Spain was ruling Mexico from Spain*
Spanish Rule
Encomienda – Privately owned pieces of land where people could use Native-Americans as slaves
Put to work on sugar plantations and in gold and silver mines
Thousands die from exposure to disease and from starvation
Catholic missionaries convert thousands
Build schools, hospitals, churches*