unit 3: age of exploration
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Unit 3: Age of Exploration. 1492-1660. Goals of this unit:. To understand why Spain and Portugal were the leaders in early European Exploration. To develop an understanding of the Iberian system and its impact upon the social, economic, political, and religious developments in the New World. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Unit 3: Age of Exploration
1492-1660
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Goals of this unit:
• To understand why Spain and Portugal were the leaders in early European Exploration.
• To develop an understanding of the Iberian system and its impact upon the social, economic, political, and religious developments in the New World.
• To gain an understanding of the Columbian Exchange and the African slave trade.
• To understand the changes in motivation and power as the Age of Exploration progressed.
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Iberian Golden AgeGOAL OF TODAY:
To understand why Spain and Portugal were the leaders in early European
Exploration.
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The Iberian Golden Age• Conditions Favored Iberian Expansion
– Muslim control of routes– Prices rising in Europe
• Portuguese and Spanish mastered new technology and techniques– Compasses, astrolabe (navigation aid to
determine distance)– Produced more accurate maps, charts– Built bigger ships to sail stormy Atlantic
• Lateen sails AKA caravels– Brass cannons to attack enemies from afar
• Benefited from immunities to diseases that devastated native populations in conquered areas
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Iberian Golden AgeMotives:
• Growing population called for more wealth
• Spain: Reconquista – period of 600 years (9th-15th centuries) of Spanish crusade against Muslim presence in Iberian peninsula– Provided fighting spirit, hoped to unite
and fight alongside Prester John in Ethiopian against the Muslim
– Fueled by both war and economic goals• Portugal: Avis Dynasty fueled by
commerce
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Portugal vs. Spain
• Portugal gained lead on Spain in 1400s– Claims along coast of West Africa– Led by Prince Henry the Navigator and Diaz
• Took Cueta, later reached tip of Africa by 1488• Spain began to challenge Portuguese claims
– Conflict resolved in Treaty of Alcacovas (1479)– Columbus lobbied to both Portugal and Spain for financial support of his West
Indies trip (1492)• Queen Isabella (Spain) would his patron• Portugal saw trip as threat to their Atlantic monopoly
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Iberian Conquest of AmericaGOAL OF TODAY:
To develop an understanding of how and why the Portuguese and Spanish were
able to conquer the natives of the Americas.
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• Compromise – Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)– Line drawn by Pope Alexander VI to distribute land in New World
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Portuguese Empire• World empire, commercial supremacy by 1550
– Posts around Africa, Southeast Asia– Vasco de Gama (1460-1524)
• Voyage to India very lucrative– Pedro Cabral (1468-1520)
• Stumbled onto Brazil
• Portuguese in Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia– Alfonso de Albuquerque dominated eastern African
regions, fortified trading posts– Goa 1510, Malacca in 1511, less success in China
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Growth of New Spain
• 1500s – Spain sets up American empire– Begin in West Indies, conquers –
“conquistadores”– “Vice-royalties” of New Spain
• Aztec Empire declining– Hernando Cortes arrives (1519)
with army of 600, horses, crossbows, muskets, cannons
– Montezuma (Aztec leader) welcomes Cortes
– War breaks out, Spanish defeat Aztecs after struggle
– Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), becomes capital of Spanish Empire
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Spanish in South America
• Francisco Pizarro (1470-1541)– Conquered Inca state with 200
men– Bold, brutal, treacherous
treatment of Incas– 20 years of anarchy ensue
• Conquistadores took, plundered South America– Vice-royalties in decline by mid
1600s
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Growth of New Spain• Notable ventures:– Hernando de Soto (1500-1542) explored area of U.S. southeast– Francisco de Coronado (1510-1554) explored area of U.S. southwest– First colony established in St. Augustine, FL (1565)– Vasco de Balboa (1479-1519) discovered the Pacific– Francisco Magellan (1480-1521) expedition first to circumnavigate globe, Magellan
killed in Philippines
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Cycle of Conquest & Colonization
Explorers Conquistadores
Mission
aries
PermanentSettlers
OfficialEuropeanColony!
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Warm Up
• Based on the video we watched yesterday, what do you think the Columbian Exchange was?
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The Columbian Exchange & African Slave Trade
GOAL OF TODAY:
To gain an understanding of the impacts of the Columbian Exchange and the African
Slave Trade
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The Columbian Exchange
• Massive movement and interaction of biological organisms after Columbus• People, plants, animals, diseases• Between Europe, Americas, Africa
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The “Columbian Exchange” Squash Avocado Peppers Sweet
Potatoes Turkey Pumpkin Tobacco Quinine Cocoa
Pineapple Cassava POTATO
Peanut TOMATO Vanilla MAIZE Syphilis
Olive COFFEE BEAN Banana Rice Onion Turnip Honeybee Barley Grape Peach SUGAR
CANE Oats
Citrus Fruits Pear Wheat HORSE Cattle Sheep Pigs
Smallpox Flu Typhus Measles Malaria Diptheria Whooping
Cough
Trinkets Liquor GUNS
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Effects of Columbus’ Journey
• Exploration became journeys of conquest• Three centuries of Spanish dominance
• Largest and longest-surviving trading bloc• Financed Spain’s commanding role• Spurred other European nations to explore
• Virtual destruction of American societies• Warfare, diseases, exploitation of labor• Spanish Catholicism, economic dependency,
hierarchical social structure
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Need For Labor
• Native populations in America dying off fast• Cultivation of sugar led to spread of slavery in
Brazil and West Indies• Only slavery provided enough workers for
profitable slave plantations• By 1600 the slave population exceeded the
white population in the West Indies
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Majority of Africa Slave trade based out of West Africa
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Middle Passage – journey from Africa to New World
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Slave Ship
“Middle Passage”
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“Coffin” Position Below Deck
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African CaptivesThrown Overboard
Sharks followed the slave ships
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Many slaves die during Middle Passage
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Plantation Slavery
• Plantations drew Africans into the heart of transatlantic economy• West and central Africa – center for slaves
• Economic needs of colonial powers• Willingness to exploit weaker peoples• Built on racist notion that non-European, non-
white tribal peoples were subhuman
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Slave Life
• Daily life of most slaves consisted of– Hard agricultural labor– Poor diet and clothing– Inadequate housing
• Death rate among slaves was high
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Triangular Trade Activity
• What made it so efficient?• Pick one product going to each continent and
explain why you think that product is being shipped there.
Triangular Trade Activity
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Iberian Systems in the New WorldGOAL OF TODAY:
To develop an understanding of the Iberian system and its impact upon the social,
economic, political, and religious developments in the New World.
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Majority of Africa Slave trade based out of West Africa
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Effects of Slave Trade on Africa• Measurably changed patterns of life and
balances of power– By stimulating trade or warfare– By disrupting previous market and political
structures– By substantially increasing slavery inside Africa– By disrupting the male-female ratio
• Important regional variations in impact
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Effects of Slave Trade• Greatest active period for slave trade
– 1701–1810 – 60% of total• Total numbers still debated• Number who died along the way unknown
– “Middle Passage”• Best estimates:
– “Occidental trade” – at least 11 million• Between Africa and New World
– “Oriental trade” – at least 5 million• Between Africa and Islamic lands
– Enslaved within African – 15 million
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Iberian Systems in New World• Devastation from violence,
disease, slavery– Iberian period pre-1600s:
• Inhumane treatment, ruthless, populations wiped out
– Native Americans lost 90% of population
• Demographic mix from immigration, African slaves
• Iberian Economies in America– Plantations began to develop– Encomienda – system of distributing
grants, allowing buyer to take land or people living on that land
• Forces those natives into labor• Brought horrendous abuses
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Treasuresfrom the Americas!
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Iberian Systems in New World• Initially used Amerindian (native)
labor, imported African slaves after epidemics– Slaves worked on mines, plantations
• Suppression of native religions– Conversion to Christianity the moral
justification of colonization
• Priests report back atrocities to Spain, Rome– Charles V tries to intervene but is legally
powerless– Bartoleme de Las Casas (1474-1506)
Dominican Friar who decried system, helped phase it out in favor of contract labor
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The Colonial Class System
Peninsulares Creoles
Mestizos
Mulattos
Native Indians Black Slaves
Full-blooded Spanish population
2nd GenerationFull-blooded Spanish
Spanish-Indian populationSpanish-African
population
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Northern European ExplorationGOAL OF TODAY:
To understand the changes in motivation and power as the Age of Exploration
progressed
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The Commercial Revolution• (Mid 1500s – mid 1700s) – period of economic
expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism– Mercantilism: a collection of governmental
policies for the regulation of economic activities, especially commercial activities, by and for the state
• A nation’s international power was thought to be based on its wealth, specifically gold supply
• To accumulate gold, a country always had to sell more goods abroad than it bought
• Utilize expansion and land overseas• Create a self-sufficient economy
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Northern European Expansion• The Commercial Revolution shifts power
– Iberian states declining, northern states emerging• Dutch, French, British
– New products, foreign trade, bullion (gold, silver)• Spain and Portugal lacked structure to absorb precious
metals– European markets become swamped with
• New products: silks, furs, ivory, carpets• New foods: potatoes, peanuts, maize, tomatoes• Also: spices, sugar, coffee, tobacco
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Northern European Expansion• Economic power spreads
to English, Dutch, French, then Italians, Germans
– In search of “the Northwest Passage” to Asia
– Northern European capitalism flourishes
– Joint-stock companies (monopolies) form
– Agricultural practices and technology changes
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The Dutch Empire• By 1650, Dutch dominated south Asia, Atlantic
– Commercial empire, overpowered and captured Iberian holdings in Africa, West Indies, Brazil
• Dutch East India Company– Chartered company, monopoly, dominated Asian trade in 1600s
• Pepper, cinnamon, sugar, tea, tobacco, coffee• Dutch West India Company
– Settled in Hudson River region, profited from fur trapping– Founded New Amsterdam, would become NYC
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The French Empire• Starting colonizing in North America in 1600s
• French based claims to North America from past voyages of Verrazzano (1524) and Cartier (1530s)
– Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635)• Founded Quebec, fur trade is main industry
• Took advantage of declining Iberian empire– Overtook Iberian stakes, set up new trading posts
• Santo Domingo (Haiti) – maintained slave labor– Became largest sugar and coffee producer in 1700s
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The English Empire
• Pre-1650, English expansion not large– Internal conflicts, restricted expansion– Population growth, religious persecution, entrepreneurship led to
growth• Influx of families led to stable development of colonies
• 1500s – British voyages:– John Cabot to North America in 1497– Francis Drake – first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe in 1580
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The British Empire• Jamestown (Virginia) – 1607
– Became first permanent settlement in North America
• Faced numerous hardships (winter, disease, drought, Native American attacks)
• Persevered, established English culture, political institutions
• More colonies founded• Plymouth (1620)• Massachusetts Bay (1629)• Maryland (1632)
• English commercial gains fared better in India (East India Company)
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Conclusion• Europeans initiated new age of oceanic expansion• Spain, Portugal led explorations in 15th, 16th centuries
– Spain declined due to lack of economic development at home, inflation, too large an empire
– Iberian domination gave way to north European expansion• Dutch, English, French gained new vitality through financial
organization, shipbuilding, metalworking, manufacturing• Europeans encountered many societies around the world
– Interacted with establish governments; respected their domains– Intervened more directly in smaller, less organized areas
• Spanish, Portuguese expansion brought drastic change– Disease drastically reduced indigenous population– Iberians generated new cultural fusion in America– Atlantic slave trade brought disastrous consequences