European Exploration

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European Exploration

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Essential Questions

• How did European exploration impact European
  development?
•  What were the main causes of European
  exploration and colonization?
•  What were the effects of European colonization?
•  Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?  

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Motives for European Exploration

1. Crusades ? by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia.
2. Renaissance ? curiosity about other lands and
   peoples.
3. Reformation ? refugees missionaries.
4. Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue.
5. Technological advances.
6. Fame and fortune.

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Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry the Navigator - 1394 through 1460

• For military reasons and trade routes he
  encouraged
• sailors to push farther and chart new areas.
• He (the Portuguese) sailed down the African west
  coast,
• as they do so they set up trading stations
  along the
• coast these trading stations would later
  become
• the origins of the African slave trade.

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American Exploration The Colonies
Colonies were needed to strengthen the mother
country!
A To produce a valuable commodity, like sugar
and tobacco
B For raw materials to build items back in the
mother country.
C To produce commodities that the mother
country cant make. This will mean that they
dont have to rely on trade or imports. -
America has tall trees LUMBER for ship
masts! - Now Europeans wont have to rely on
Russian lumber. Brainpop
ALL goods and materials went to the mother country
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America Exploration The Caribbean and Slavery

• The Spanish and Portuguese have the ability for
  colonies first, so they
• are the first to the Caribbean, primarily
  for sugar.

• The Europeans brought diseases
• with them that the Native
• Americans did not have immunities
• against this resulted in a
• holocaust

• With no Native Americans to work
• the sugar fields, where did they find
• workers?

AFRICA
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The Columbian Exchange
Christopher Columbus unknowingly set in motion an
exchange of goods between Europe and the
Americas that would become known as the Columbian
Exchange. The exchange involved -
Plants (Early Islam 700-1100CE previously) -
Foods (Early Islam 700-1100CE previously) -
Crops (Early Islam 700-1100CE previously) -
Animals (Early Islam 700-1100CE previously) -
Human populations - DISEASES!!! - Smallpox,
measles, diphtheria, w. cough - 1519
Smallpox devastates Aztecs (17-1.3m) -
1500-1800 100m Overall, the Columbian
Exchange increased world populations 1500425m,
1600545m, 1700610m, 1800900m
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Emerging Global Trade
For the first time Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe,
AND the Americas were connected in global trade.
These events will set the stage for 2 World Wars.
China, the premier power at this time will use
its muscle to set the conditions of trade by
demanding Silver (their basis of currency).
This global market sets the stage for global
resource exploitation by the 1600s.
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Essential Questions

• How did European exploration impact European
  development?
•  What were the main causes of European
  exploration and colonization?

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Essential Questions

•  What were the effects of European colonization?
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• Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?