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1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the Big Blue - Coggle Diagram
1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the Big Blue
Discovered Hispaniola (now Haiti/Dominican Republic) in the Caribbean and immediately considered what this meant for
Spain
, for wealth, for Legacy, and actually more important than most people realize for Catholicism itself.
Discussion
Why?
What was
Portugal
Doing?
Establish route around Africa
Trade depots across the coast of Western Africa became the areas in which African chiefs and Kings started selling other Africans to Europeans as slaves
Labor
Encomienda System
Social Classes
MONEY & Resources
UK King
grants charters for Carolinas and
Georg
ia these southern colonies such as were more economic than their northern cousins
:explode:
France
and the
British
disagree on who should have control or influence in North America so they decide to go to war.
French and Indian War
or
Seven Years War
:explode: which leaves both France and Britain economically exhausted.
Britain tries to tax American to pay from the war... Stamp act, Sugar Act, Tea Act...
Declaration of Independence
:explode:
American Revolutionary War
Which France helps us pay for... making France MORE BROKE
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France
always trying to compete with the UK also colonizes North America:
Canada
and
Louisiana
(Louis)
France has massive Debt
French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte Invades Spain and Portugal
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Effect on Europe
Colombian Exchange
:explode:
Spain
and
Portugal
have some disagreement about who gets to control what in South America and North America... The Pope Settles it creating The
Portugese
area of Brazil and the
Spanish
Areas of pretty much Avery where else. :explode:
Spanish Holdings in the New World Literally fall on their face and leaders like
SIMON BOLIVAR
(you know Bolivia... BOLIVAR) free South America from the Spanish and create their Own Countries: Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, etc. Portuguese king flees to Brazil and makes it the home base for the
Portuguese empire.
:explode:
Europeans now know of a "New World"
Europeans from
UK
and Netherlands (but lots from UK) are interested in the possibility of a land were they can practice their
religion
without fear of Catholics or the Anglican Church....
Reformation
Creation of Northern US Colonies such a Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Mass, Connecticut... for Puritans to pursue creating faith based communities away from the chaos of Europe