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The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests

The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests. Admiral Zheng He. Each ship was 400’ long and 160’ wide!. 1371-1435. Zheng He’s Voyages. In 1498, Da Gama reached Calcutta, China’s favorite port!. Motives for European Exploration.

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The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests

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  1. The Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests

  2. Admiral Zheng He • Each ship was 400’ long and 160’ wide! 1371-1435

  3. Zheng He’s Voyages • In 1498, Da Gama reached Calcutta, China’s favorite port!

  4. Motives for European Exploration Commercial Revolution by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia for trade products.(Ottomans in the way) Renaissance curiosity about other lands and peoples. Humanism, Secularism Reformation refugees & missionaries (Jesuits) need a place to go Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue. $$$$$$$ Technological Advances allow maritime travel to be easier, less dangerous

  5. New Maritime Technologies Better Maps Hartman Astrolabe(1532) Mariner’s Compass • School for Navigation, 1419

  6. Portuguese Exploration Bartolomeo Dias, 1487. Vasco da Gama, 1498. Pedro Cabral

  7. Ferdinand Magellan & the First Circumnavigation of the World:Early 16c

  8. Spanish Exploration Columbus’ Four Voyages

  9. Once information is brought back home in Europe, Spain and Portugal become rivals. Each want land in the “new world.” To settle the dispute, the Pope steps in and draws a line on the map. The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 The Pope’s Line of Demarcation Spain receives everything West and Portugal everything East of the line.

  10. 1519

  11. What people are already living in the New World? Aztecs

  12. The First Spanish Conquests:The Aztecs Is Cortez Quetzalcoatl?

  13. Spanish Conquests: The Incas Atahualpa 1531

  14. Machu Picchu- Terrace Farming

  15. The “Columbian Exchange”

  16. Atlantic Explorations Looking for “El Dorado”

  17. Cycle of Conquest & Colonization Explorers Conquistadores OfficialEuropeanColony! Missionaries PermanentSettlers

  18. Who will work these new lands?

  19. A need for workers on the farm leads to: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

  20. “Middle Passage” Many died during the Middle passage. Slave ships packed as many Africans on board as possible knowing they would lose a large percentage. ~12.5 million were sold. Of those, 10.7 million managed to live through the horrific journey known as the Middle Passage.

  21. The Colonial Class System Peninsulares Creoles Mestizos Mulattos Native Indians Enslaved Africans

  22. After the creation of the colony, trade booms!! These trade routes come to be known as TRIANGULAR TRADE

  23. Mercantilism The colony produces while the mother country received/enjoyed the benefits and sells back to the colony for profit!

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