History slides

Question 1

factors that lead to European exploration(technology)

Answer 1

• Advances in technology like the caravel,compass,maps,astrolabe,rudder and sails

Question 2

European desire to spread Christianity

Answer 2

competing with Islam
- Reconquista (take back Spain)
- Every expedition carried missionaries
Changes in Christianity sparks evangelicalism
- Protestant Reformation

Question 3

why did eastern Europe go to the Americas?

Answer 3

Russia had no warm water ports; stayed land based

basically western Europe had water

Question 4

Why didnt China get any land??

Answer 4

China sent fleets to indian ocean to trade and explore,commanded by Zheng He,

• Brought back plants,goods and people from Africa and India
• But Ming Emperor canceled expeditions because it cost too much

Question 5

why did Portugal and Spain go first?

Answer 5

Geography- long Atlantic coast lines, proximity to Africa
Reconquista- Spain re-conquering of Iberian Peninsula
-Drove Muslims from Spain
Eager to expand their influence

Question 6

PART 2

Answer 6

• italian trade dominated in Mediterranean
  
  • Portugal and Spain wanted to by-pass them
  • Therefore went south and west

Question 7

Where did Portugal discover first

Answer 7

• With the money from Prince Henry and the training from him aswell they “discovered” the Madeira and Azores islands

Question 8

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE: ITS EFFECTS ON THE WORLD : animals and plants from old to new

Answer 8

• From old to new: Horses,pigs,chicken,cow,sugarcane,bananas,wheat and rice
• horses changed the culture of Natives,sugar allowed Europeans to create huge plantations which caused the Atlantic slave trade

Question 9

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE: EFFECTS: animals and plants, part 2 from new to old

Answer 9

potatoes,tomato,tobacco,maize,cocoa,peppers

• Potatoes were popular in Euro-easy to store and grow
• maize became staple in Africa and China
• Pop growth

Question 10

Diseases from exhange

Answer 10

• smallpox - eradicated whole villages (EX;Arawak people of the Caribbean 100%
• Up to 90% of Native population
• this allowed for more places for people to conquer

Question 11

human migration caused by exchange

Answer 11

• most voluntarily but Africans forcibly
• penal colonies
• very few women
• vast sugar plantations
  - Encomienda
  - decimated Native pop let to slaves

Question 12

Religions of the Exchange

Answer 12

• Christian Missionaries accompanied every expedition
• Catholic clergy zealously spread the holy word by holding mass baptisms
• a unique catholic culture arose as a result

Question 13

Mining and the exchange

Answer 13

• Aztec gold went straight to spain
• Incan silver became the metal
• japan enters into this exchange because they have silver
• THIS IS THE FIRST TRULY GLOBAL EXCHANGE NETWORK

Question 14

the 13 English colonies

Answer 14

• an after thought because they didnt have an gold or silver or sugar
• Biggest stuff to come out of North America was fish, Cod

Question 15

Triangular trade

Answer 15

• sugar,rum,cod from the Americas to Europe for silver
• Silver to Africa for slaves
• Slaves to Americas to work the plantations

Question 16

Mercantilism

Answer 16

• Use raw meterials from the colonies to make to sell globally
• The country must have mre exports than imports
• Gov taxed imports (Tariffs) and invested with private trading companies(British east india company)