Discovery Exploration Commerce Motives Motives for Exploration 1
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Discovery, Exploration, & Commerce
Motives
Motives for Exploration 1. God 2. Gold 3. Glory
Motives #1 – GOD • The CHURCH wanted to: • Stop the spread of Islam • Spread Christianity
Motive #2 – GOLD • MERCHANTS wanted to: • Find new trade routes to the East • Make a profit
Motive #3 – GLORY • EUROPEANS wanted to: • Establish colonies & trading posts throughout the world (competition between nations)
New Technology
New Technology • Astrolabe: • An astronomical instrument that was used to determine latitude
New Technology • Triangular Sails: • Sails that allowed ships to sail AGAINST the wind • Cartography Improvement: • Increasingly precise maps
New Technology • The Caravel: • A small, sturdy & highly maneuverable ship • Proved to be more effective than previous vessels
The Race is On!
The Race is On! • At the time the Portuguese were most advanced in terms of new sailing technology • Began a national rivalry between Portugal & Spain
The Race is On! • Line of Demarcation (1493): • An imaginary line of longitude that was established to divide lands claimed by Portugal from those claimed by Spain • Intended to maintain peace
The Race is On! • Treaty of Tordesillas (1494): • Moved the Line of Demarcation further to the West due to Portuguese complaints
The Impact of Exploration
#1 – The Triangular Trade
#1 – The Triangular Trade • Europe – Africa: weapons, rum & cloth • Africa – Americas: slaves • Americas – Europe: sugar, molasses, cotton, tobacco
#2 – The Middle Passage • Second leg of the Triangle Trade; 6 to 12 week voyage • Tiny spaces, chained together • Darkness, stench, heat • 1 in 5 did not survive
#2 – The Middle Passage • Died of disease, suffocation or suicide • 20 – 30 million people taken from Africa
Diagram of Slave Ship
#3 – Joint Stock Companies • Merchants who wanted to invest in exploration formed Joint Stock Companies • Raised money by combining resources with other merchants
#3 – Joint Stock Companies • Allowed large & small investors to share the profits & risks of exploration voyages
#4 – Mercantilism • Belief that a nation’s power depended directly on its wealth; amount of gold/silver it possessed • Goal of every nation was to become as wealthy as possible
#5 – Colonial • European nations established Development colonies to gain power & wealth, as well as to make the “mother country” self sufficient
#6 – Columbian • The Columbian Exchange refers Exchange to global transfer of plants, animals, diseases and technology between the “Old” and “New” Worlds • Transformed European and Native American ways of life
#6 – Columbian Exchange
America: Asia: Potato Corn Turkey Chili Pepper Chocolate Pineapple Blueberry Pumpkin Rice Tea Spices Sugarcane Soybean Coconut Eggplant Citrus Fruit Africa: Banana Rice Plantain Yam Okra Pepper Coffee Where did it come from? Europe: Cattle Horse Wheat Sugar Onion Olive Beef Cabbage Citrus Fruit
SMALLPOX
Ticket out the door • Think of your favorite meal • List all the ingredients needed to create that meal (on your ticket) • Label those ingredients ‘Old World’ or ‘New World’ • When finished, determine whether anyone on earth could have enjoyed that meal prior to 1492! Record your answer on the ticket.
- Roanoke island mystery
- Age of exploration motives
- Vasco nunez de balboa motives for exploration
- New world
- Ponce de leon motives for exploration
- Exploration and discovery where ideas come from
- Kondratieff cycles geography
- Location-based commerce (l-commerce)
- Jätte råtta
- Adressändring ideell förening
- Verktyg för automatisering av utbetalningar
- Shaktismen
- Jag har nigit för nymånens skära text
- Expektans eller exspektans
- Stig kerman
- Strategi för svensk viltförvaltning
- Sju för caesar
- Vad är verksamhetsanalys
- Tack för att ni har lyssnat
- Ekologiskt fotavtryck
- Centrum för kunskap och säkerhet
- Läkarutlåtande för livränta
- Inköpsprocessen steg för steg
- Påbyggnader för flakfordon
- Egg för emanuel
- A gastrica
- Formel för standardavvikelse
- Atmosfr
- Rutin för avvikelsehantering
- Presentera för publik crossboss
- Fspos vägledning för kontinuitetshantering