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The Age of Exploration and Conquest, Cortes and the Aztecs - Coggle Diagram
The Age of Exploration and Conquest
The reasons for exploration
Cheaper and safer route for spices
Build empires
New trade routes
Influence by Renaissance
Technological advances
Compass
Astrolabes, quadrants and cross staffs
Log and line
Hourglass
Logbook
Line and lead weight
Portolan charts
Portuguese voyages
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartholomeu Dias - Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama
Empire in Africa
Control of Spice Trade
Christopher Columbus and the New World
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
The Americas - 'The New World'
1492
Slaves, exotic fruit, maize, parrots and gold
Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
All of new continent to Spain except Brazil went to Portugal
Pizarro and the Aztecs
Impact of Colonisation on Natives
Decline in Native Population
Loss of culture
Introduction of Christianity
Increase of Slave Trade
Impact of Colonisation on Europe
Empires
Conflict among countries
Spain's power increased
Exchange of goods
Cortes and the Aztecs