1. The Age of Exploration Europeans in the New World

2. On IN Page 50…. Set up Cornell Notes Title: The Age of Exploration Essential Question: What was the Age of Exploration and what were its effects?

3. The Age of Exploration Who: An explorer is a person who travels in search of geographic or scientific discoveries. Explorers came from European nations (Spain, Portugal, France, England & the Netherlands)

4. The Age of Exploration What: A time period when Europeans began to explore the rest of the world. When: Early 15 th century to 17 th century

5. The Age of Exploration Where: Areas explored include Africa, Asia, North America & South America

6. The Age of Exploration Why: Nations were looking for gold & spices, to expand their empires and to spread Christianity to new parts of the world. God. Glory. Gold.

7. The Age of Exploration How: Improvements in mapmaking, ship building and navigation made this possible. Astrolabe: used to find position of stars Compass Caravel

8. Mercantilism leads to Exploration Mercantilism: an economic system that attempts to increase the wealth of a country by creating a favorable balance of trade. Exports are goods that a country sells to another Imports are goods that a country buys from another

9. Mercantilism leads to Exploration In order to keep a “favorable balance of trade,” one country would need more exports than imports. Example: Spain sells $500 in sugar to France and France sold $300 in cloth to Spain. France would also have to pay Spain $200 worth of precious metals (gold & silver) to cover the rest of the cost for the sugar. Spain would have a favorable balance of trade because the value of its exports (sugar) was greater than the value of its imports (cloth). Spain would become richer because of the precious metals it received from France.

10. Mercantilism leads to Exploration If European nations could acquire new land and set up colonies in North & South America, they would be able to use all of the resources to create goods and would also be able to sell the goods in the colonies.

11. Spain Claims an Empire The Line of Demarcation 1493: Spain & Portugal compete over land in the Americas Pope Alexander VI drew the Line of Demarcation on a map The Line allowed Portugal to claim all non- Christian lands to the east and Spain to claim all non-Christian lands to the west Treaty of Tordesillas Leaders of Spain & Portugal met in 1494 to redraw the line They moved the line more than 800 miles farther west

12. Conquistadors Spain sent many explorers to the Americas including conquistadors (conquerors) to claim the new land for Spain They used force and successfully took land away from natives Reasons for Spanish Victories 1.Spread of European diseases killed millions of Native Americans 2.Better weapons 3.Spanish alliances with other local Native Americans 4.Use of brutality

13. The Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange is the movement of plants, animals & diseases between the Eastern & Western hemispheres. It is estimated that more than 20 million Native Americans in Mexico were killed by European diseases Crops from the Americas, especially potatoes & corn, helped quickly grow the population in Europe

14. A Northwest Passage While Spain & Portugal were conquering areas in the southern Americas, explorers from France, England & the Netherlands were looking for a Northwest Passage They hoped to sail through North America into Asia

15. Code Marking-Repetition #1 Go through your notes about The Age of Exploration and Highlight important information Circle key terms (vocabulary) Put stars (*) next to possible test quesitons Put question marks (?) next to things you don’t understand (and then actually ask me those questions!)

16. Warm-Up (IN Page 55 TOP) 1.Write a COMPLETE definition (in your own words and using complete sentence(s)) of “The Age of Exploration” that includes the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY & HOW. 2.What are the 3 “G’s” when it comes to why Europeans wanted to explore the world? 3.What is Mercantilism? 4.How are imports different from exports?