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Age of Exploration (IMPACT OF COLONIZATION ON NATIVES (Conquered by…
Age of Exploration
IMPACT OF COLONIZATION ON NATIVES
Conquered by conquistadors: Spanish soldiers
HERNAN CORTES: Aztecs
FRANCISCO PIZARRO: Inca
KILLED by disease or mistreatment
African slaves replaced the Natives on the plantations
ENSLAVED in mines and on plantations
LOST THEIR LAND
SOCIAL STRUCTURE CHANGED: a class system based on race formed
NOT ALLOWED TO PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION
Jacques Cartier claimed Canada for France
French and British formed a trade relationship with the First Nations
JAMES COOK: Claimed Australia and New Zealand for Great Britain
Aborigines lost their kids, land and culture
Explain how the physical features of a region impact exploration and colonization
Spanish set up PLANTATIONS in the Caribbean; meaning there was fertile soil and warm weather
Certain animals, plants, and foods were only available in certain parts of the world
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE: trading of animals, foods, plants, and diseases between the Old (eastern hemisphere) and New worlds (western hemisphere)
Eastern hemisphere sent wheat, sugar, bananas, rice, coffee, horses, pigs, chickens
Western hemisphere sent: corn, potatoes, beans, peanuts, pumpkins, turkeys, cacao, tomatoes
TRIANGULAR TRADE: a three- stage pattern of Atlantic trade that carried goods and enslaved people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Trade winds and ocean currents helped ships along this trade route
French and British hunted beaver fur and the Northwest Passage
CAUSES OF EUROPEAN EXPLORATION
GOLD: seeking fortune
increased interest in spices and wealth of Asia
dangerous to travel on land; needed a faster sea route
NORTHWEST PASSAGE: route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America
GLORY: seeking to expand their power
IMPERIALISM: empire- building; taking over other lands as colonies
COLONIZE: a permanent settlement of people from one country to another
UNLIMITED GOV.: a system with no limits on the power of the gov.
MONARCH: a king or queen
COMMAND ECONOMY: a system where all economic decisions are made by a central power
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS The Treaty divided which lands could be colonized by Spain and which could be colonized by Portugal.
MERCANTILISM: Economic system in which colonies sent raw materials to the mother country; in return, colonists were expected to buy products from the mother country.
GOD: looking to spread their religion
Marco Polo's book interest people to travel
Improved tech made exploring possible; magnetic compass, maps, caravels (fast ships)
ABSOLUTE LOCATION: exact place where latitude and longitude coordinates cross
LONGITUDE: lines that measure east and west of the Prime Meridian
LATITUDE: lines that measure North and South of the equator
Other Explorers: Christopher Columbus, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Amerigo Vespucci