The Age of Discovery 1095 to 1500s

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Roots of Discovery Pope Urban II Order the Crusades 1095 Contact and Commerce Wealth to Italian City-states Funds Renaissance New Technology

Marco Polo year Sojourn in China Book inspires travel and exploration Led to the discovery of a cheaper route to the East.

Portugal… 1450 the Caravel was introduced Allowed for travel down the African coast Allowed for contact with African Gold (2/3 rd of Europe’s supply) Trading Posts (Gold and Slaves) Adopted Arab and African practices Set the standard for new world

Lets Push On…A Quest for a New Route to the Indies! Henry the Navigator Bartholomew Diaz 1488 Vasco da Gama 1498 Pedro Cabral 1500

Henry the Navigator Encouraged Portuguese exploration. Bartholomew Diaz 1488 (Found a water rout to Asia) Rounded southern tip of Africa to search for route to Asia Vasco da Gama 1498 (Found a water rout to Asia) Reached India: brought treasures creating European thirst for Eastern Goods. Opened door for Portugal’s Eastern empire Pedro (Pietro) Cabral 1500 Discovered east coast of Brazil during 2 nd failed voyage to India Brazil will become a colony

Spain enters the Search! Columbus 1492 (Italy): successful failure Amerigo Vespucci (Maps) : detailed his exploration in Brazil (German geographer honored Vespucci’s false claim to have been the first to travel to Brazil, and named the new area “America”) Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Secured Spain’s Claim to America French and English reject the treaty!

Amerigo Vespucci

Treaty of Tordesillas Spain secured claim New World Divided Portugal: Brazil and territory in Africa and Asia Spain: dominated North and South America Spain never had access to slave trade

Gold, Silver, Corn, Potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate, syphilis Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, scarlet fever SlavesSlaves

Spanish Conquistadors *Vasco Balboa 1513 The Pacific Ponce De Leon 1513 Florida *Magellan Cortes Mexico Aztecs Pizarro 1532 Incas Coronado “El Dorado” De Soto 1541 Mississippi

*Vasco Balboa 1513 Discovered the Pacific Ocean off of Panama. Ponce De Leon 1513 Discovered Florida, seeking the fountain of youth. *Magellan Sailed around South America but killed by natives in the Philippines Cortes Conquered the Aztecs (Montezuma's envoys thought Cortes was God Quetzalcoatl.) Pizarro 1532 Incas Vast amounts of gold and silver. Coronado “El Dorado” De Soto 1541 Mississippi

Vasco Balboa 1513

Ponce De Leon 1513

Magellan

Cortes

Pizarro 1532

Coronado “El Dorado”

Spanish Accomplishments 200 Cities 2 Universities Control of Millions of Indians

Characteristic of the Spanish Empire “God, Gold and Glory” Intermarriage with Indians Centralized Authority Feudal Society

French Colonization Verrazano and Cartier Sailed coast from Carolina to Maine. Explored up the St. Lawrence River Champlain, Quebec 1609 “Father of New France” 1 Year after the English founded Jamestown in Virginia Marquette and La Salle 1673 Sailed down Great Lakes Sought to prevent Spanish expansion into Gulf of Mexico region. Outpost and Trade Good relations with Indians

Obstacles to French Barred Huguenots Canada Difficult Climate Feudal Land System

What about the Native Americans? Population Arrived 40,000 years ago on the Bering Strait and spread to the tip of South America Spoke 100s of different languages, religions and cultures and inhabited America. Between 4000 to 1500 BCE created permanent farm villages that would dominate Peru, Central Mexico and Northeastern Mexico Aztecs, Incas, and other “semi-sedentary”

Different Views Work “Women’s Work” Matrilineal and Matrilocal society Property Religion

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