- 1. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
- At the beginning of the XV century Europeans started to launch
maritime expeditions: their goal was to get in touch with India,
China and Japan in order to trade with them.
Wordl map of Ptolomeo XV century
2. Discovering new routes
- Because of the price of the spices they wanted a new route that
did not cross through the territories controlled by the
Muslims,which at the same time, avoided a lot of
intermediates.
3.
- Another reason, was to avoid the Mediterranean route
(controlled by Italians and Muslims) and the long crossing of the
desert.
Konye Urgench, Turkmenistan 4.
- The first to try maritime routes throught the Atlantic Ocean
were the Portuguese. They created bases all along the African
coast. Their goal was to sail past the Cape of Good Hope, and loop
around the whole continent of Africa.
5.
- Due to the Spanish/ Portuguese rivalry, Castille was forced to
try another route.During that time, Cristopher Colombus appeared
with a proposition for the kings of Aragon and Castille: to reach
India and China by sailing to the West.
6. America was a terrible mistake
- Yes, Colombus thought that he had arrived to India and China
but it was not true, there was still a long way to those places. He
had arrived to the New World, uncharted and unknown from which
nobody had everspoken.
Autor: Jean Thodore de Bry (1528-1598) 7. New people and new
civilizations
- For the first time, Europeans were in touch with people that
had bizarre customs that amazed Europeans. For instance: they
encountered the Mayans, and learned about their astronomy and large
pyramides.
8.
- Spanish people met the Aztecs, and saw their city Tenochitlan,
which was bigger than any European city during that time.
- There, the Spaniards witnessed hundreds of human
sacrifices.
AZTECS 9.
- They also went to South America were they encountered the Incan
Empire and their roads, depots and powerful civilization.
INCAS 10. Charting the world
- During the XV and XVI century thanks to Portuguese and
Spanish,a big part of the world was charted.
- For the first time, it was proved that the world was
round.
11. A tragedy for America
- For the Americans their contact with Europeans was a disaster.
The Europeans not only put and end to their culture, civilization
and ways of life,but also provoked a massive number of deaths due
to the introduction of new illnesses like the FLU that caused
millions of deaths.
12. sincretism
- The discovery of America was also an opportunity to join
different ways of life, which has created a sincretism.This is
something that you can still see in America. This cultural
diversity is the trade mark of the America today.
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