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Unit 5 Exploration and Exploitation Flashcards

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Absolutism

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One person should rule god is ruling on person foot in French Revolution form of Protestant

Military legal system and taxes
Young Lewis xiv

Don’t disobey or your doing that to god

Divine rights of kings

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Feudalism

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Made up by historians no unified government
System in mideival Europe

Loyal to individual
Kings land
Nobles  rented paid king
Knights. Protected and lived on land
Peasants worked on land and protection
Given land and used land for things and loyalty is given
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Exploration Navigational Inventions

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Spears, horses, ships

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Middle Passage

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Joint stock company

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Promotes business by allowing investors to share money risk and reward
Loan
Fails
Joint stock each person looses a 1 instead of 1 person loosing millions

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Colonization

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Raw materials from new colonies into industrialized materials
From mother country must trade with them

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Favorable balance of trade

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Sell more than you buy export and inport

Europeans did by forming new colonies and resources from new to old by using slaves native

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Commercial Revolution

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Sparked interest in trade longer voyages to make goods cheap
Bankers have money Peasants got land and money came form Black Plague
Foreign luxuries explore and expensive wars

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Mercantilism

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Economic system accumulating of gold a silver by a country
Sell more than buy competing with other countries

Control all trade to make as much money as possible favorable balance of trade

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Colonies

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European settlements in other parts of the world colonies could only trade with the mother country

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Spain and Portugal were worried about finding land and the other claiming it so they split up directions
S west close to America’s
P unexplored East route of Africa

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Colombian exchange

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Exchange of plants and animals between new and old Europe and America

Wasn’t fair more like an extraction of people slaves to be used to get materials and lots of them died

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Triangle of trade

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Europeans wanted the best bang for there buck problems were bland food and loves they need sugar and alcohol to spice things up ship for cheap they got slaves raw to manufactured goods

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Portuguese exploration

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Gold Coast East through Indian Ocean
They got spice lands fourth Turkish and Indian ships led the European exploration under the help of prince Henry the navigator

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Spanish exploration

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Fought the Incas
They had guns swords shields and horses and skills or organization

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Louis XIV

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Son king ruler monarch minupulated nobles ruler of the french live in Versailles believed he was the god French most powerful absolute monarch

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Sponsored the Portuguese exploration with his money not his smarts

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Southern tip of Africa called cape of good

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Vasco Da Gama

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After cape to Indian Ocean to coast of India and got spices

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Francisco Pizarro

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Killed Inca he had 168 men steel weapons and guns and horses they found Luma the city of kings captured Atahualpa

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Atahualpa

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Inca leader known as the son god defeated brother

Light challenge to Spain with light weapons illiterate

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Christopher Columbus

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Wasn’t aware of earths size believed he could reach Asia by sailing west instead of East led Europeans persuaded queen of Spain to give $ went to America’s Cuba island hispoliana believed Asia was Caribbean Honduras and Central America he named the indies

Created immense trade network

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Motives for Expansion

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Economics
 Trade
 Spice
 Metals
Religious 
 Spread Christianity 
Chief motives
God glory and gold 
Also they had high tech like ships
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Old world

New world

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Old
Europe Asia Africa
New
North and South America and Oceania

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