push & pull factors for europeans
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DO NOW• 5 min
• Write down the following in your notebook on Page
• Learning Target: I will understand the reasons and motivations for
European Expansions.
• Success Criteria: I can draw and explain a visual representation for at
least 5 reasons for European Expansion.
• Guiding Question: What motivated European Explorers to expand?
• Importance/Relevance/Skills: Causality, Notetaking
Choose one of the
following to answer in
your INB:
• Why do people
• Immigrate to the US?
• Move away for college?
• Move to New York City?
• Move to Hollywood?
• Move to a different
city/state?
• Answers could use your
own or others’ life
experiences 5 min Journaling
3 min Pair share
5 min class call out
PUSH VS. PULL FACTORSAS YOU TAKE NOTES – MARK THE FACTS AS PUSH OR PULL FACTORS
Factors that “push”
people away from
home
PUSHFactors that “pull”
people towards a
new place
PULL
PUSH AND PULL COMMENTARY
• Commentary Template – Topic – Why did Europeans start exploring the
world?
_______________________ (CD) was a pull factor for exploration because
____________________________.
_______________________ (CD) was a push factor for exploration
because____________________________.
• Example – Topic - Why did I want to leave Seattle?
The depressing, overcast and rainy weather (CD) was a push factor me
leaving Seattle because I needed to live somewhere with lots of sun and heat
instead of being wet and cold all the time (explanation).
SPICES, SILKS, & JEWELS FROM ASIA
Ship carrying spices or silks worth over 100
times more than a ship carrying timber or
grain!
TECHNOLOGY
• Better mapmaking;
world is round!
• Compass
• Astrolabe developed
(allowed sailors to
figure out the latitude of
a ship)
TECHNOLOGY
• Cannons provide
firepower
• New ships that could
sail against the wind
• Maybe go west to get
to Asia?
POLITICAL CHANGES
• Rivalries and wars
between countries
• Spain vs. Portugal
• England vs. France
• “Keeping up with the
Joneses”
ECONOMIC CHANGES
• Standardized money
• Shortage - needed more gold and silver
• Financed overseas expeditions to get that gold and silver!
• Encouraged international trade and banking
• Could lend money to companies and governments
MERCANTILISM
• Fixed amount of wealth
in the world
• Have to take money
away from other nations
• More wealth = more
power
• Invade lands with gold
and silver first
• Invade lands with raw
materials second
MERCANTILISM
• If you have colonies with
BOTH gold/silver AND
raw materials, money
stays in your
country/empire
• Goods from colonies
could only be sold in the
home country…STRICT
control of colonies by the
home countries
SOCIAL CHANGE
• Population increase
• Get rich in El
Dorado
• Religious
persecution
• Spread Christianity
DEFINITIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW!
Exploitation: the action or fact of
treating someone unfairly in order to
benefit from their work.
Mercantilism: belief in the benefit
of profitable trading,
commercialism
1400-1700 IMPERIALISM
• Imperialism - domination of a powerful nation over the political,
economic, and cultural affairs of another nation or region
• Major European empires try to grab up as much of the new
worlds as possible
• Spain, Portugal, England, France, Netherlands, Russia
• Renaissance = stronger monarchs that are now competing with
each other in the new world market.
HOW IS THIS BAD?
• Effect on the “new worlds”
• Slave trade
• Death and disease brought to native peoples
• Beginning of imperialism that last through the world wars
• India, China, Korea, South and Central America
HOW IS THIS GOOD?
• Development of world markets and trade
• Strengthening of modern state system
• Learning and sharing of knowledge
THE TRIANGULAR TRADEThree stages
1. Merchants shipped cotton
goods, weapons, and liquor to
Africa in exchange for gold or
slaves
2. Middle Passage = shipment of
slaves across the Atlantic to
the Americas
3. Merchants used molasses and
sugar (from plantations) to
make rum
Triangular trade began
again
when rum used to buy
more
African slaves.
THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
Transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World
11-14 million slaves lived through horrible journey, as many as 80,000 a year at
its height.
•Historians estimate that as many may have died during the process (11-14 million)•Africa’s population did not increase between 1650-1800•Tightly packed in terrible conditions.•Some African kingdoms willingly participated in the trade for goods, others fiercely protected their people from raiders.
EXPLORATION WORKSHEET
-Compass
-Better maps
-New ships
-New and improved
techniques in map-
making, navigation,
design and
weapons
-started standardizing $
GOLD
-Opened more banks
-joint-stock companies
-more $ stronger,
ambitious gov’t
-Wanted to get rich quick
-Wanted religious freedom
-Resettlement was
attractive
-certain amount of $
and wealth to be had
-needed to take from
others to get wealth
-$=power
-governments were excited
about exploring and
claiming new land
-wanted $=wealth
G #1: GOLD
Europeans wanted a faster route to Asia for access to gold,
spices and other natural resources. Once the new world is
discovered, explorers and conquerors seek to exploit these
new markets as well, plus, SLAVES.
Mercantilism: There is a limited amount of wealth to be had,
your country must get the biggest piece.
De Gama: a
boat full of
spices: 300%
profit! Whoa!
G#2: GLORY
It’s a race! Competition between rising
monarchs. Which European country can
discover, explore and conquer the new land
first?
Humanist emphasis on individual success
plus the invention of the printing press leads
to opportunities to develop “celebrity status”
G#3: GOD
Native people are pagan, and need to be
converted.
Reformation has brought competition into the
mix. Which new sect can get the most
followers?
The very first permanent settlements are often
missions. (California!)