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What were the effects of the spice trade on the Europeans in the 1400's?
Italian merchants controlled most trade between Asia and Europe
Describe the trade route to the West Indies
Took a year to travel
Very dangerous (Robbers)
Spices were needed
Traveled in caravans
What were obstacles explorers had to face?
Scurvy
Poor navigational tools
Poor Maps
Fear of the unknown
Lacked supplies
What were the accomplishments of the explorers?
Exchanged goods and ideas
improved ships and maps
Claimed Territories
What were the motives that dove Europeans to explore the world?
The economy
Religious
competition for empire and belief in superiority of own culture
Desire for spices
Wealth
Cartographers
created more accurate mapsand sea charts
Astrolabs
Determined their latitude at sea
Caravel
combined square european sails anf arab triangular sails
rutter in the back center
Protoguese ship
Prince Henry (Henry the Navigator)
Mapped the Afrucan coast
Portuguese Explorer
Patron of Exploration
School to train explorers to sail
Bartholomeu Dias
Explored the Southern Tip of Africa
Discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama
Sailed through the Cape of Good Hope to India
Scurvy
Disease caused by the lack of Vitamin C
Francisco Coronado
Clamied the SW US for spain
Christopher Columbus
Born in Genoa Italy
Discovered the Americas
Thought it was India
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Spanish explorer
clamied the Pacific ocean and adjoining lands for spain
"south Sea"
Ferdinand Magellan
Named the Pacific Ocean from Lt. Pacificus (Calm)
Found the Straight of Magellan
1st to sail around the World
Circumnavigate
Sail around the world
Columbia Exchange
Exchange between america and other places
John Cabot
found fishing grounds off Newfoundland
english
found a northern route to NA
1497
Jacques Cartier
French
Explored the St. Lawerence River
Henry Hudson
Dutch
Explored the Hudson River
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian
Mapped America
Wrote "New World"
Believed americas were a new landmass and not part of asia
America's named after him
conquistadors
spanish conquerers of the Americas
Immunity
Resistance from diseases
Hernan Cortes
Spanish Conquistador
Conquered the Aztecs
1519-1521
Thought he was the sun god
Francisco Pizarro
1532
Conquered the Incans
Clamied most of SA for Spain
Reasons for the spanish victory in SA
Better military technology
Division and discontent among the indians
Disease kill 80% of the natives
Many iandians believed the disasters they suffered marked the worlds end
who were the first 2 european groups to explore the world?
Portugual and Spain
What was the only influence of Portugual in SA? Who was the rest controlled by?
Brazil
Spain
what do spain and portugual attepmt to do to help the church?
Spread Christianity
What were the 2 catholic nations?
Spain and Portugual
viceroy
representatives who ruled in the kings name
Plantations
large estates run by an owner or the owner's overseer
Encomiendas
The right to demand labor or tribute form Native Americans in a particular area in return for spreading religion
Privateers
Pirates who operated with the approval of the european government against spain france and england
Who claimed parts of the americas?
Spain
France
The Netherlands
England
Sweeden
Name of the fist permanent french settlement and year founded?
Quebec
1608
First english settlement and year?
Jamestown, VA
1607
Which 2 european powers were rivals in the 1700's?
Britain and France
What war did france and britain start and where did it spread? years
Severn years war
India and Africa
1754-1763
What treaty ended the seven years war? year signed
Treaty of Paris
1763
missionaries
spread christianity to the native americans
Revenues
income from taxes
Author
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70574
Card Set
Cultures
Description
15-1/16-(1-3)
Updated
2011-03-04T03:05:29Z
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