European Exploration and Settlement: 1492-1607

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European Exploration and Settlement 1492-1607
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European Ideas and Eventsimpacting North America

• 1096- Crusades begin
• 1271- Marco Polo explores China
• Trade, plague ends feudalism, leads to
• Renaissance developments
• 1. rise of the city- banking, joint stock
  company, trade
• 2. Nation-State supplants the Church
• 3. Ideals of Renaissance explorer
• 4. New inventions, technology

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Marco Polo Italian Explorer 1254-1324
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Main Trade Routes 500-1500
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Anxious investors wait for news about the South
Sea Company, a joint stock company formed in
London in 1711. Joint stock companies are a form
of partnership in which each member, or
stockholder, is financially responsible for the
acts of the company.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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Spain, 1492
After forcing many Jews to be baptized and then
referring to them as "marranos" (i.e.  swine),
and after an Inquisition in which some 700
marranos were burnt at the stake for showing
signs of "Jewish" taint, Spain expels all Jews
from the country.
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Zhu Dis Map of the World, circa 1405
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Shanhai Yudi Quantu Map, circa 1425
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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
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• Effects of the Columbus Voyages
• Americas land led to end of feudalism
• Gold creates inflation destabilizes
• European economy
• Political power shifts to Spain
• Treaty of Tordesillas (1492)

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Great Biological Exchange Great Biological Exchange

Old World to New World New World to Old World

Diseases Smallpox MeaslesChicken PoxMalariaYellow FeverInfluenzaThe Common Cold Syphilis
Animals Horses CattlePigsSheepGoatsChickens Honeybees Earthworms TurkeysLlamasAlpacasGuinea Pigs

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Old World to New World New
World to Old World
Plants Rice WheatBarleyOatsCoffeeSugarcaneBananasMelonsOlivesDandelionsDaisiesCloverRagweedKentucky Bluegrass Corn (Maize)Potatoes (White Sweet Varieties)Beans (Snap, Kidney, Lima Varieties)TobaccoPeanutsSquashPeppersTomatoesPumpkinsPineapplesCacao (Source of Chocolate)Chicle (Source of Chewing Gum)PapayasManioc (Tapioca)GuavasAvocados
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Hernan Cortes Conquers Aztecs 1519-1521
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Cortes Conquests,1519-1521
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Missions in North America Red Spanish Yellow
French
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Henry Hudson, Netherlands Third Voyage, 1609
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Peter Minuit (Lynden) purchases Manhattan for
trinkets worth 24, 1626
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New Netherlands, 1661
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588
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