The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe and the Americas 1492-1750

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The Beginnings of Our Global Age Europe and the
Americas 1492-1750

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Hernando Cortes

• Conquistadors
• Spanish first European settlers in the Americas
• Conquered Aztecs in 1521
• Explain how he was able to do this.

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Francisco Pizarro

• Conquered Incan Empire

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Effects of the Spanish Conquistador

• Native Americans perished
• disease
• Spanish Empire expanded (gold)
• Sea routes

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Spanish Empire

• Controlled trade
• Strict
• Spread Christianity
• Encomienda Bartolome de Las Casas
• Brought Africans to Americas
• Churches built universities in the colonies
• encomienda

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Colonial Society and Culture

• Culture blending Africa, Native America,
  Spanish
• Society
• Peninsulares
• Creoles
• Mestizos
• Mulattoes
• Education Church built universities

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Beyond Spanish Empire

• Brazil Economy based on wood
• Pirates in search of gold on Portuguese, Spanish,
  British, and Dutch ships

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New France

• Canada - Louisiana
• Furs, trapping, and fishing
• No Protestants

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English Colonies

• Jamestown the 1st colony
• Tobacco and religious persecution
• Why were English colonies established?

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Struggle for Power

• Explain why the French and Indian war fought?

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Atlantic Slave Trade

• Led by the Portuguese
• Why Africans?

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Triangle Trade

• Europeans transported goods to Africa for
  slaves
• African rulers and traders seized captives in
  the interior and brought them to the coast.
• Merchants bought sugar/cotton and sold them back
  in Europe

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Middle Passage

• Explain what took place during the middle passage

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Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade

• Explain how the slave trade affected the
  Africans?
• The slave trade was an economic system

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Columbian Exchange

• Most important items brought to the rest of the
  world? Why?
• Livestock introduced to the Americas?
• From Africa?
• Grains introduced to the Americas
• The most deadly brought to the Americas?
• Explain why the global population exploded?

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Commercial Revolution

• Explain why inflation occured.
• Price Revolution?
• Capitalism?
• Exploring New Business
• Bypassed guilds

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Mercantilism Rises

• Mercantilism?
• Explain the role of the colony.
• Explain how national wealth increased.
• Explain how economic changes affected the
  Europeans.