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Ch 14: European Exploration (Unit 1) Flashcards

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portolani

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  • charts made my medieval navigators and mathematicians in the 13th and 14th centuries
  • more useful than schematic and symbolic medieval maps
  • details on coastal contours, distances between ports, compass reading
  • drawn on a flat scale= little use for longer voyages
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Prince Henry the Navigator

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  • prince of portugal; organized voyages along west coast of Africa
  • goal= seek a Christian kingdom as an ally against the Muslims, acquiring trade opportunities for Portugal, and spreading Christianity
  • founded a school for navigators in 1419→ Portuguese went to Africa in search of gold; came back with slaves (1441)
  • 1471= discovered a new source of gold→ contract with state of Bakongo= trade in gold, ivory, and slaves→ Portuguese= leased land from local rulers and built stone forts along the coast
  • death in 1460= Portuguese established series of trading posts along the West African coast (thriving business in gold and slaves)
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Bartholomeu Dias

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  • Portuguese sea captain
  • took advantage of westerly winds in S. Atlantic and rounded Cape of Good Hope but feared mutiny, so he returned to Portugal (not enough supplies) in 1488
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Vasco da Gama

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  • Portuguese sea captain
  • 10ys after Dias= rounded Cape of Good Hope; stopped at Muslim merchant ports along coast of E. Africa
  • Calicut= found spices, no Christians; went pack to Portugal with ginger and cinnamon, which was worth 60 times the cost of the expedition
  • returned annually to that place (wanted to stop Arab shipping and create a monopoly in spice trade)
  • 1509= Portugal armada defeated Turkish and Indian ships; cut off flow of spices to Muslim rulers in Egypt and Ottoman Empire
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Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque

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  • set up port faculties at Goa, which became the HQ for Portuguese operations throughout the entire region
  • sailed to Malacca (control over Malacca would destroy Arab spice trade and provide the Portuguese with a way to the Spice Islands
  • Portuguese seized city; massacred the population
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Christopher Columbus

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-Italian explorer who worked for the queen of Spain (Isabella)
-circumference= much less than ppl before thought; thought he went to Asia, but actually went to the Americas
-Nina. Pinta. Santa Maria (1492)
wanted to find gold and convert the natives (“Indians”) to Christianity
-4 voyages= still convinced he was in Asia (Caribbean Islands, mainland in Central Asia)
-discovered the New World but brought the beginning of a process of invasion that led to the destruction of an entire way of life

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John Cabot

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  • Venetian seaman

- explored the New England coastline of Americas

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Pedro Cabral

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  • Portuguese, accidentally discovered South America (Brazil) in 1500
  • returned with 300,00 lbs of spices
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Amerigo Vespucci

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  • Florentine

- described geography of the New World in letters

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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  • Spanish explorer
  • led an expedition across the Isthmus of Panama
  • reached Pacific Ocean in 1513
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Ferdinand Magellan

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  • strait of Magellan (tip of south america)
  • 1519=sailed across Pacific, killed in Philippines by natives
  • one out of five of his ships completed the circumnavigation of the earth (back to Spain)
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Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

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  • divided up the New World into separate Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence (South America= Spanish
  • Cape of Good Hope = Portugal; route across Atlantic= Spanish
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conquistadors

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  • spanish conquerors
  • god, glory, and gold
  • brought diseases to America
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Hernan Cortes

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  • conquered the Aztec empire(1519-1521)
  • went to Tenochtitlan; made alliances with ppl who didn’t like the oppressive rule of the Aztecs
  • Moctezuma= aztec monarch; thought Cortes was sent by Quetzalcoatl (god ); he offered gifts of gold to Cortes and gave them a palace to stay in
  • Cortes took Moctezuma hostage; pillaged the city; 1 yr later= city revolted; Spanish died but the smallpox killed most of the natives
  • temples= Spanish churches and gov buildings
  • no more aztec empire
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Francisco Pizarro

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  • Spanish
  • 1532-1533= went to New World; had 180 men with guns, horses, steel weapons
  • by this time, the Inca were already infected with smallpox; mostly why he was successful
  • emperor= smallpox; death= 2 sons claimed throne→ civil war
  • captured Atahulapa and killed (one of sons)
  • captured Cuzco (capital); aided by Incan allies; made Lima the capital for a new colony of Spanish Empire
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enocomienda

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  • economic and social system that permitted the conquering Spaniards to collect tribute from the natives and use them and laborers
  • holders= supposed to protect, pay and supervise their (the encomienda) spiritual needs
  • Spanish ignored this; they put them to work on plantations and gold and silver mines
  • disease, forced labor, and starvation,
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Bartolome de Las Casas

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  • Dominican Friar
  • spoke against the encomienda system, saying it was too cruel
  • result= the government abolished the encomienda system
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Boers

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-Dutch farmers; settled in areas outside of Capetown (free from tropical diseases; good weather)

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Triangular Trade

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  • pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, and Americas; new Atlantic economy
  • Europe= brough manufactured goods (guns, gin, and cloth) to Africa; traded for slaves
  • slaves were shipped to America’s and sold; European merchants bought tobacco, molasses, sugar, rum, coffee, and raw cotton and brought them back to Europe to be sold
  • 10 million African slaves were transported to America’s between 16th-19th century by British ships (half), Dutch, French, Portuguese, Danish and American ships
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Middle Passage

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  • journey of slaves from Africa to America’s; the middle leg of the triangular trade route
  • ships= not sanitary; long voyages; high death rates (10%); slave who survived voyages were subject to even higher death rates (diseases)
  • new generation of slaves (slaves who were born and raised in the New World)= developed an immunity towards the diseases
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The Slave Trade

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  • Portuguese built forts on coasts of Africa to dominate gold trade
  • Dutch seized some of their forts; took control of most of their trade across the Indian Ocean
  • Dutch East India Company= africa (cape of good hope) settlement; it was supposed to be a base for other Dutch ships to get supplies while going to the Spice Islands; turned into a permanent colony
  • this had an affect on the natives living on the coast (not interior continent)
  • planting of sugar cane
  • end of 15th= Portuguese set up sugar plantations worked by African slaves in central coast of Africa
  • 16th= sugar plantations were set up in Brazil and Caribbean
  • more slaves were needed to grow sugar cane; African slaves were shipped to Brazil and Caribbean and eventually to the New World
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Effects of Slave Trade

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  • economic price= importation of manufactured goods put out the cottage industry, where ppl make the goods
  • depopulation of African communities
  • political= Africans were armed with guns from the trade; raids/wars b/c of the constant demand for slaves
  • BENIN
  • Quakers (Society of Friends)= criticize slavery; beginning of European sentiment for no more slavery
  • French Revolution 1790s= french abolish slavery; 1807= English
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The Mughal Empire

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India…..

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-portuguese= first to arrive; 16th century = Dutch and English arrived; competed with portugal
-English=- trading posts in Surat, Fort William, and Madras; Madras= brought Indian made cotton goods to the East Indies where they were traded for Spiced, which were brought to Engld
-Dutch= focus on spice trade in 7th century
-French= competed with British; captured Madras (British port)
-SIR ROBERT CLIVE
-British empire-builder who eventually became the chief representative of the East India Company in India; military genius; saved British
-united British power/ control in Bengal
BATTLE OF PLASSEY
-1757; British army of 3,000 defeated a Mughal army of 10 times its size
-victory= British East India Company received from the weak Mughal court the authority to collect taxes from lands in the area surrounding Calcutta
-Seven Year’s War= British forced French to withdraw completely from India\

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China…..

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MING DYNASTY
-1369-1644; Portuguese arrived in 1514; peace with nomadic tribesmen
-1630s= epidemic; suffering= peasant revolt led by Li Zicheng; occupied Beijing
-last Ming emperor= hung himself in palace gardens
QING DYNASTY
-Manchus; conquered Beijing
-strong rulers
-Kangxi and Qian-long= ruled China for more than a century; responsible for greatness
-military campaigns= expensive
-increased pressure on land= economic hardships→ rebellions
-gov= confined city walls on Canton and permitted them to reside there from Oct March
-English profits
-English wanted to have access to other cities
-Lord Macartney= visited Beijing to talk about trade restrictions with Qiang-long but he wasn’t interested in British product. Macartney was mad; China would pay for that
-English= replaced Portuguese as dominant force in European trade
-trade with China= tea and silk

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Japan……

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  • anarchy→ unification
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu= took title of shogun (general) in 1603; made the most powerful and longest lasting shogunates→ central authority
  • Portuguese traders landed in Japan to take part in trade between japan, china, and southeast asia
  • Francis Xavier= converted locals to Christianity (1549) → not good= missionaries interfered in local politics; Ieyasu expelled missionaries; Japanese Christians- persecuted
  • Christian peasants revolted= they were killed
  • Japanese= interested in tobacco, clocks, eyeglasses, and guns (helpful in defeating enemies)
  • gov closed ports of Hirado and Nagasaki→ only small dutch community was allowed to stay b/c they didn’t bring missionaries
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Americas…..

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  • Spain and Portugal established large colonial empires
  • Portugal= profited from its empire in Brazil
  • Spain= empire in S America but importance as commercial power decline in 17 century b/c of a drop in the output of the silver mines and the poverty of the Spanish monarchy
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West Indies……

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-french and english colonial empires in the New World include parts of the West Indies
-English= Barbados, Jamaica, and Bermuda
-French= Saint-Dominique. and Guadeloupe
-both made plantation economies worked by African slaves (tobacco, cotton, coffee, sugar)
“SUGAR FACTORIES”= sugar plantations in the Caribbean
-Jamaica= by the last 2 decades in the 18th century, it made 50,000 tons of sugar using 200,000 slaves
-Saint-Dominique= 3,000 plantations, 100,000 tons of sugar, 500,000 slaves; it was the site of the first successful slave uprising in 1793

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British North America

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  • Spain claimed N America but it was ignored
  • HENRY HUDSON
  • English= establishing colonies
  • 1st permanent colony= Jamestown (1607, modern Virginia); barely survived (no quick profits)
  • Massachusetts Bay colony= practice own religion + economic interest= successful colonization
  • it had 4,000 settlers→ 1660 it had 40,000 settlers
  • 13 colonies= 1.5 million ppl by 1750; prosperous
  • run by British Board of Trade, the Royal Council and the Parliament
  • had legislatures that tended to act independently
  • merchants (Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Charleston) resisted regulation from British gov
  • mercantilist= colonies provide England with raw materials and they buy manufactured goods from England
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Henry Husdon

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  • English explorer hired by Dutch; 1609= discovered the Hudson River
  • Dutch= established colony of New Netherlands (hudson river mouth to albany)
  • competition between English and French= decline of Dutch commercial empire
  • English seized New Netherlands and renamed it New York→ Dutch West India Company went bankrupt
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French North America

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  • _____
  • Samuel de Champlain= established settlement at Quebec; french began to take a more serious interest in Canada as a colony
  • French N America was run autocratically (vast trading area→ furs leather, fish and timer)
  • it was not very populated; French state wasn’t able to get ppl to emigrate to Canada
  • unable to provide men and money for wars
  • French ceded canada to British in 1793 (Treaty of Utrecht)
  • decline of Spanish and Portugal led these 2 states to depend more on resources from colonies and imposed struct mercantilist rulers to keep others out
  • 1713= britain’s first entry into Spanish American markets when British were granted the privilege known as the asiento (transporting 4,500 slaves a year to Spanish Latin America)
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Jacques Cartier

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-french explorer

1534= discovered the St Lawrence River and laid a claim to canada as a French possession

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Gerardus Mercator

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  • Flemish cartographer
  • Mercator projection= conformal projections= tries to show the true shape of the landmasses but only in a limited area
  • shapes of land near the equator are accurate but the farther away from the equator they lie, the more exaggerated their sizes are
  • straight line= line of true direction (north, east, south, west)
  • ppl used this for 4 centuries
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Columbian Exchange

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-the reciprocal importation and exportation of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas
NEW WORLD TO EUROPE
-Agricultural products= potatoes, maize, tomatoes, peanuts, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate
-animals= turkeys
-diseases= syphilis
-potatoes=easily stored for winter; enabled more ppl to survive on smaller plots of land
EUROPE TO NEW WORLD
-Agricultural products= coffee, cane sugar, wheat, rice
-animals= cows, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens
-diseases= smallpox, measles, diphtheria
-human population= European colonists and African slaves
CONSEQUENCES
-for the new World..
-disease killed native (90% between 1492-1600)
-intro of horses transformed culture of the Plains Indians in North America
-for Europe
-new crops revolutionized European diet and helped feed growing population
-new Caribbean sugar plantation along with rich silver and gold mines in Peru brought influx of wealth to Spain that helped trigger inflation
-wealth generated by New World colonies increased power in western Europe
for Africa….
-wealth produced by New World sugar and tobacco plantation promoted the triangular trading system and the trans-Atlantic slave trade
-1500-1800= Africans comprised the largest group of ppl transported to the New World

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price revolution

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___________

  • Europe-wide (areas affected at different times); western europe economy steady inflation (16th century)
  • food= increase price (especially wheat)
  • result = wages failed to keep up with price increases; agricultural/salary workers in urban areas= standard of living dropped
  • aristocrats raised rents= prospered
  • commercial and industrial entrepreneurs benefited b/c of rising prices, expanding markets, and cheaper labor costs
  • governments= borrowed a lot from bakers; imposed new taxes on subjects
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joint-stock company

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  • raises capital by selling shares to individuals who receive dividends on the investment while a board of directors runs the company
  • made it easier to raise large amounts of capital for world trading ventures
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Jacob Fugger

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  • given a monopoly over silver, copper , and mercury mines in Habsburg possessions of central Europe (profits= over 50% a year) in exchange for arranging large loans
  • House of Fugger= bankrupt at end of 16th century when Habsburg defaulted on loans
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The Amsterdam Exchange/Bourse

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  • trading of stocks replaced the exchange of goods

- 1st half of 16th century= hub of European business world

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Mercantilism

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  • the economic tendencies that came to dominate economic practices in the 17th century (economic principle and policies);
  • belief that the total volume of trade was unchangeable; wanted to build strong, self-sufficient economies
  • balance= colonies export raw materials and import finished goods
  • believed that state intervention sometimes was desirable for the sake of the national good)
  • prosperity of nation depended on a plentiful supply of bullion (gold/silver)
  • ppl want to achieve a favorable balance of trade (exported goods were of greater value than those imported→ promoted influx of gold and silver payments that would increase the quantity of bullion
  • encourage exports= gov should stimulate/protect export industries and trade (monopolies) encouraging investment in new industries through subsidies, importing foreign artisans, and improving transportation systems by building bridges, roads, and canals
  • colonies= good source of raw materials and markets for fresh goods

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