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Exploration Flashcards

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Eric the Red

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  • Viking/ Norse
  • discovers Greenland
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Leif Ericson

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  • Vikings/ Norse
  • discovers NA from Greenland and Canadian Coast to RI
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Zheng He

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  • Chinese explorer
  • travels to Saudi Arabia and East of Africa
  • Chinese don’t get much credit for the Age of Exploration
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Chinese credit in Age of Exploration

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They don’t get much credit because they were so ahead in innovations and isolated themselves, Europe got ahead.

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Phoenicians

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  • known for navigation
  • made it to the Caribbean sea (on their coins)
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Polynesians

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  • found DNA in South America (theory)
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God, gold, glory

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  • convert others to Christianity, “Gods Will”
  • silk and spice trade and beat Italian monopoly
  • for fame, for explorer recognition, for country and king
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Astrolabe

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Navigation tool for latitude

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Log System

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For speed and direction in navigation.

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Keel

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Keep ship upright, balance with wind and sail.

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Rudder

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For steering

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Lateen Sail

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  • triangle sails
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caravel

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ship that puts all of the new technology together for explorers and trade

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Who was the first to start exploring?

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Portugal

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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  • establishes a navigation school (shipbuilders, math, astronomers, captains)
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Gold Coast

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10% of the world’s gold supply, located in West Africa

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Bartholomew Diaz

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  • rounds the tip of Africa in 1488
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Vasco Da Gamma

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  • 1497 makes it to Calicut, India and brings back silks and spices for 6 times the cost
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Alexander VI

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  • makes the treaty of Tordesilla (Alexander VI treaty) in 1494
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Vespucci

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  • sails up East of NA in 1499
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Cabral

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  • finds Brazil in 1500
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Treaty of Tordesilla

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  • splits the world between Spain and Portugal
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Line of Demarcation

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  • the line in the treaty of Tordesilla splitting the world
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Columbus

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  • sails from Spain in 1492 and finds islands in NA, thinks they are in China
  • voyages to Caribbean (CR, Columbia, Venezuela)
  • dies no $
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Balboa

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  • crosses Panama and claims the pacific, proving they weren’t in China
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Magellan

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  • first to circumnavigate the globe
  • leaves w/ 5 ships and 1 comes back
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Ponce de Leon

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  • looks for the fountain in Florida and claims it
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Cortes

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  • leaves from Cuba and goes to Mexico
  • fights Aztecs and is successful because they have better tech and weapons, SMALLPOX
  • pretends to be Quetzalcoatl the GOD
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Monteczuma

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Ruler of Aztecs

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Dona Malinche

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  • slave that helps Cortes
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Pizarro

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  • explores Ecuador, Peru and conquers Inca people
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Atahualpa

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Inca emperor

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DeSoto

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  • explores SE US to Mississippi
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Coronado

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  • explores SW US, CO to KS
  • brings horses with him changing American life
31
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Valdivia

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  • claims Chile
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Encomienda System

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  • gave landowners right to force North Americans to work the land
  • Native American slave died too quickly or ran away so the importation of African slaves came into practice
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The Caste System

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  • people are born into it
  • Peninsulars are the highest position, white parents and born in Spain or Portugal
  • Creoles are below them, white parents but born in New World (wealthy and educated)
  • Mestizo/Mulatto are below them, white and NA parent, they are wage earners and laborers
  • Slaves/ NAs
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Verranzano

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  • explored for France up the East Coast of NA
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Cartier

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  • explored entrance to St. Lawrence River Seaway
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Champlin

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  • explored St. Lawrence River to Great Lakes
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Marquette and Joliet

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  • explored Great Lakes, upper Mississippi river and Ohio river
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LaSalle

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  • explored Mississippi River to Gulf of Mexico
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Cabot

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  • explored for England
  • coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
40
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London Company

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the first British settlement in NA

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Hudson

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  • Hudson River and NY, NJ, DE for England
  • Hudson Bay for the Dutch
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New Amsterdam

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Dutch Settlement

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Colombian exchange

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  • exchange of goods between Europe and the New World
  • Europe got corn and potatoes and NA got disease and HORSES
44
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Trade Triangle

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Between…
- slaves in Africa
- cash crops tobacco and sugar in the Americas
- guns and manufactured goods in Europe

45
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Mercantilism

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  • a country’s economic policy
  • power is determined by wealth
  • favorable balance of trade to your country

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