How did European expansion change the world?

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TOPIC 2 EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND CONQUEST DURING
THE 15TH18TH CENTURIES
How did European expansion change the world?
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Source The Library of Congress

• A world map from 1570 by the Flemish
  cartographer, Abraham Ortelius

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Source Wendelin Boeheim

• A wheellock pistol from 1570

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Source Colonel Warden

• John Harrisons marine chronometer

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Source Juan de la Cosa

• A 1500 map reflecting the discoveries recorded by
  Amerigo Vespucci

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• Gerardus Mercators world-map projection of 1569

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Source Ypacaraí

• An engraving of a Spanish galleon from the 1500s
  or the 1600s

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• The four voyages of Columbus

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Source http//www.trainweb.org/panama/history.htm
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• Vasco Núñez de Balboa claims the South Sea a
  19th-century engraving

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Source Wolfgang Sauber

• A modern mural called Discussions between
  Taxcaltecans and Hernan Cortés,
• showing Doña Marina in the centre

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Source Jan Karel Donatus Van Beecq (1638-1722)

• An engraving of Tenochtitlan showing how the
  Aztec city was literally built on a lake for
  protection. All buildings, no matter how large,
  were built on rafts, as were the gardens.

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Source Jan Karel Donatus Van Beecq (1638-1722)

• The Temple of the Sun, where the Aztecs practised
  human sacrifice

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• Francisco Pizarro

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Source Guaman Poma (1536-1616)
Source geni

• A gold Inca statuette of a llama

A weaver from the Inca Empire
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Early Spanish colonisation in the Americas
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• The Mexican hacienda Jaral de Berrios

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Source Franz Hogenberg and Georg Braun

• Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, in 1572

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Source Bamse
Portuguese settlements in Africa
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The Island of Principe, 1725
Source Steve Evans from Bangalore, India
Santo António Church on Mozambique Island, part
of the settlement that sprang up there during
Portuguese colonisation
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Source Ahanta
St Georges Fort (on the left) and the new Dutch
fort built on St Jamess Hill (on the right) in
Elmina
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Source FC Georgio 1998
A Khoi settlement in Table Bay, as depicted in an
engraving in Abraham Bogaert's Historische
Reizen, 1711.
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Source Tillman

• A drawing by a Tlaxcalan artist in the 1500s

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Source TANAP

• The trade zone of the Dutch East India Company
  between the
• Cape of Good Hope and Japan, 1655

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