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Unit 4: Transoceanic Connections (1450-1750) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Smallpox
      - Typhus
      - Measles
      - Malaria
    - - Wheat --> West
      - Grapes --> West
      - Cacao --> East
      - Potato --> East
        
        European population increase
        
        Irish Potato Famine
      - Maize --> East
    - - Hunting
      - Fur Trade
        
        "Soft Gold"
    - - Pigs --> West
      - Cows --> West
      - Horses --> West
        
        Natives hunt buffalo more efficiently
        
        Natives conduct war more efficiently
  - - - Pieces of Eight
      - Silver Mining Techniques
    - - British East India Company
      - Dutch East India Company
  - - - Peninsulares
      - Creoles
      - Mestizos
      - Mulattoes
      - Indigenous
      - Africans
- - - - Henry the Navigator
        
        Schools of Navigation
        
        Universities
      - Sextant
      - Astrolabe
      - Records of wind patterns
      - Magnetic compass
      - Shipbuilding
        
        Square Sail
        
        Lateen Sail
        
        Combination of Lateen and Square Sails
        
        Caravel (Portugal)
        
        Much Smaller Ship
        
        Highly Navigable
        
        High Cargo Capacity
        
        Fluyt (Netherlands)
        
        Larger Cargo Base
        
        Smaller Crew
        
        1/2 Manufacturing Cost
      - Gunpowder
  - - - Competing European States
        
        Maritime Empires
        
        Bartholomew Dias (Portugal)
        
        Sea Route to Asia around Africa
        
        Vasco da Gama (Portugal)
        
        Claimed Goa
        
        Ferdinand Magellan (Spain)
        
        First to Circumnavigate Globe
        
        Colony in Phillipines
        
        Christopher Columbus (Spain)
        
        Found Aztec + Inca gold
        
        Columbian Exchange
        
        John Cabot (England)
        
        Claimed North American lands
        
        Jamestown
        
        Quebec (France)
        
        Henry Hudson (Netherlands)
        
        Claimed Hudson River Valley
        
        Treaty of Tordesillas
        
        Center of Economic/Political Power: Asia
        
        Mercantilism