European Exploration Reasons for Exploration Gold and God

Reasons for Exploration • Gold and God • Two Major Empires • Trade Empires

Major Explorers • Christopher Columbus • Sailed for Spain • Sought new way around

Trade Empires • Traveled along routes with preestablished trade routes • Set up Trade

Colonial Empire • Set up Colonies in “Unclaimed lands” • Sought to extract all

Colombian Exchange • The trade of Foods, Animals, and Disease between the old and

Colombian Exchange • Many things we think of as European are from Americas •

Disease • Many indigenous people in the Americas died of Disease • Did not

Importation of Slaves • Slaves were brought from Africa as labor in new world

Globalization • Trade and Exchange began the process of Globalization • Ecosystems largely affected

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European Exploration

Reasons for Exploration • Gold and God • Two Major Empires • Trade Empires • Portugal • Dutch • Colonization Empires • Spain • England

Major Explorers • Christopher Columbus • Sailed for Spain • Sought new way around the world • Found the Americas • Vasco da Gama • Went down the coast of Africa • Established trade Forts • Discovered Indian Ocean Trade routes

Trade Empires • Traveled along routes with preestablished trade routes • Set up Trade Fort/Port • Conquer cities that were already established • Would force ships to have certain contracts to trade at ports • Often married locals for access to markets • Africa, Middle East, India, East Asia • Convert people to Christianity

Colonial Empire • Set up Colonies in “Unclaimed lands” • Sought to extract all riches from land • Gold and silver • New foods and crops • Materials, Metals, Fabrics • Slaves • Convert locals to Christianity

Colombian Exchange • The trade of Foods, Animals, and Disease between the old and new world (Americas) • From the New World • Tomatoes, Corn, Beans, Potatoes, Peppers Pumpkin, Vanilla, Tobacco • Turkey • Syphilis • From Old World • Grapes, Sugar, Wheat, Olives, Citrus Fruit, Coffee Beans • Pigs, Cows, Horses, Sheep • Smallpox, Influenza, Malaria, Measles, Typhus, Whooping Cough

Colombian Exchange • Many things we think of as European are from Americas • Tomatoes for pasta and pizza • Potatoes in Ireland Russia • Sweet Potatoes in Asia • Cassava in Africa

Disease • Many indigenous people in the Americas died of Disease • Did not have immunity to diseases • Rest of world connected by trade and land routes • Hit by all the most infectious diseases at once • Estimates that 50 -90% of Americas population wiped out by disease from Europe

Importation of Slaves • Slaves were brought from Africa as labor in new world • Africans had the immunities for the diseases • Africans had to replace new world slave as labor force

Globalization • Trade and Exchange began the process of Globalization • Ecosystems largely affected • Lasting Impact on the World order