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European Exploration and expansion Flashcards

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What caused the age of exploration

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The renaissance = spirit of discovry
Serach for wealth
advances in technology

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Routes to india

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Sail around Africa or go west

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What did explorers use to calculate their location?

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  1. Compass
  2. Astrolabe
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What type of ship did they use?

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Caravel
Light fast

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What were Portugals kings

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Patrons of the explorers

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King Henry the navigator

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Wanted to find a water route around Africa to India
Portugese

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Fist European to attempt to sail arout the southern tip of Africa “Cape of Good Hope”
Portugese

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Vasco de Gama

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First to make it to Clicut, India and back to Portugal
Second trip to India
Sailed to brazil and Indonesia
Lucrative trading posts
Portugese

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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

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Helped fund certain voyages
Spain

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Christopher Columbus

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Sailed to west India, America was in the way.
Spanish

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Amerigo Vespucci

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First to realize Columbus was not in India but a new world. America was named after him.
Spanish

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Vasgo Nunez de Balboa

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tried to find passage at Isthums of Panama
realized there is another ocean to cross to get to India
First to find the pacific ocean from the new world (Panama canal today)
Spanish

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Sails west to sail Around the world
Left with 250 men returned with 18
Magellan died during the trip
Spanish

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Circumnavigate

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To sail completley around the world

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John Cabat

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Sailed to Canada
English

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Sir Frances Drake

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Sailed to the southern tip of South America and stopped over in modern day California
2nd to circumnavigate the whole world
English

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Henry Hudson

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Tried to find the Northeast passage but found ice instead
English
Explored Hudson Bay region in search of Northwest Passage
For the Dutch

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Jacques Cartier

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Sailed into the St. lawerence River Candada, new france or Newwfoulndland
Fur trade
Frech

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The Columbian Exchange

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Contact between Native Americans and Colonists lead to the exchange of plants, animals, and disease

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Mercantilism = Hands on economy

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New type of economic policy
Nation’s strength is dependent on wealth in gold and silver
Fixed amount of wealth, nations compete for it
Balance of trade
Countries seek to limit imports and maximize exports
countries have its own source for raw materials and precious metals
No dependence one others
Colonies exist only to make mother country profit
A countries colony should not trade with another country.

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Balance of trade

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Under mercantilism countries profit in 2 ways
Extract gold and silver from mines
Sell more goods than bought

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Balance of trade

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The difference in vale between what a nation imports and exports over time.

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How did countries create a balance of trade

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Tariffs on imported goods
Finished goods are more expensive than raw material
control oversea sources of raw materials.

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Colonies on the economic policy

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Economic Policy is bad for colonies.
Mother country gets benifets

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What was the Impact on society

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More businesses
Wealthy merchant middle class grows
Columbian Exhange impacts foods

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Capitalism

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Economic system in which most buisnesses are privatley woned.

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Price revolution

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1470-1620

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Inflation

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Raises prices

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Joint stock company

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Businesses formed by a group of people making a joint investment, then sharing the profits and losses.
Ex: British East India Company & Virginia Company

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What started slave labor?

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High demand for labor
shortage of labor
indentured servants were too expensive

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Triangular trade

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A trading network from the 1600s to 1800s that carried goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas and Africa

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Middle passage

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The voyage that brought slaves from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indes

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Where did Slaves work in colonies

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Plantations, mines, towns, contryside

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How did slaves cope

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Cultural traditions
Religion
Destroyed fame equipment
Attacked slaveholders
Ran away

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Effects of the slave trade

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Helped build the economies of the American colonies.

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What is African Diaspora

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The dispersal of people of African descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe due to the slave trade

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