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The Age of Exploration
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What was the Age of Exploration?
• A time period when Europeans began to explore the rest of the world.
• Improvements in mapmaking, shipbuilding, rigging, and navigation made this possible.
• Blue water sailing, not just coastal boats.• Policy of mercantilism drives the
exploration.
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What was mercantilism?
• Policy that said there was a limited amount of money in the world.
• Each country needs to grab what they can before it is gone.
• Export more than you import…more money in your pocket.
• Colonies and markets were needed to keep everything in the system.
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The Explorers: Portugal
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Prince HenryStarted a “navigation school”
sponsored voyages
encouraged “sharing” of experiences
Nicknamed “the Navigator
Goal: get to Asia’s spices by sailing around Africa
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Bartolomeu Dias
• Sailed around Cape of Good Hope at southern tip of Africa.
• Found route to Indian Ocean
• Trade can go from Europe to Asia by sea.
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Vasco da Gama • Landed in India in
1498.• Important trade
route from Europe to India and East Indies.
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Ferdinand Magellan • His crew made first
round-the-world voyage.
• Proved for certain that the world was round.
• Magellan was killed in the Phillippines, did not make it home.
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The Explorers: Spain
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Christopher Columbus
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Christopher Columbus • Believed a shorter
route to Asia could be found by sailing westward instead of around Africa.
• Found the Americas instead. Oops.
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What was the Colombian Exchange?
• Massive exchange of plants, animals and diseases.
• These things moved between the New and Old Worlds.
• Started with Columbus. • To the Americas: cows, horses, wheat,
smallpox, plus much more.• To Europe: potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco,
corn, plus much more.
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The Slave Trade
• Europeans began to use slave labor in their colonies to grow crops, mine, etc.
• Native Americans used for a while, but Africans began to be brought to the Americas.
• The slave trade then became the main focus of Europe’s relations with Africa.
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What was the Triangular Trade?
• System of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
• Stage 1: Raw materials to Europe (tobacco, rum, sugar)
• Stage 2: Manufactured goods to Africa (guns, cloth, rum)
• Stage 3: Slaves to the Americas to make raw materials.
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The Triangular Trade