AGE OF EXPLORATION

AGE OF EXPLORATION

1500-1800

Age of Exploration

• Objectives:

• Explain three main motives for exploration

• Describe the impact of Europeans on the peoples of Africa

• Why were spices of the East needed?

• Chief motives for Europeans expansion

• Portugal and Prince Henry “The Navigator”

• Bartholomeu Dias (Port.)• Vasco Da Gama (Port.)

• Christopher Columbus (Spain) 1492

• 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas• Line of demarcation

• John Cabot - explored east coast of Northern new world

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Conquistadors• Colony• mercantilism

Can you now answer?• Objectives:

• Explain three main motives for exploration

• Describe the impact of Europeans on the peoples of Africa

Africa in Transition1525-1600

• Objectives:

• What was the different uses of slaves in Europe and middle east vs. Americas?

• Plantations • -lg. agricultural estates of single crop

• Triangular trade• -Europe, Africa, Americas

Middle Passage

Why did slave owners of Caribbean encourage their slaves not to have children?

Effects of the slave trade in Africa

• -devastating to areas in W. Af. Led to depopulation, taking young/strongest men and boys from communities, led to increased warfare as Af. Leaders were armed with European weapons from trade.

Africa in Transition1525-1600

• Objectives:

• What was the different uses of slaves in Europe and middle east vs. Americas?

Summary

• Draw out as neat and detailed as possible, a diagram to represent the Triangular trade including the middle passage, what was exchanged, label all regions involved and add color

South East Asia & Spice Trade

• Objective:

• Why were Europeans so interested in S. E. Asia and how did S. E. Asians feel about this?

• Explain effects of main lands vs. islands on foreigners and religion

• What religion is mainly being practiced in the Far East and South East Asia?

-Islam & Christianity attracting converts esp. in Philippines

Politically: Islamic sultans were found on Malay Peninsula/Indonesia and staffed his bureaucracy with Muslim aristocrats.

• Bureaucracy- body of non-elective gov’t officials

South East Asia & Spice Trade

• Objective:

• Why were Europeans so interested in S. E. Asia and how did S. E. Asians feel about this?

• Explain effects of main lands vs. islands on foreigners and religion