BELLRINGER: 10/7
• 1. Identify the country for which each
explorer listed below sailed:
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1. Columbus
2. Pizarro
3. Prince Henry
4. Drake
5. Cortes
6. de Gama
AGENDA: 10/7
• 1. Bellringer
• 2. Quiz: Notebook Quiz
• 3. NOTES: Social Effects of the Age of
Exploration
• 4. SAC Debate: Columbus Day
• 5. Writing Response
HOMEWORK: 10/7
• Study for your vocabulary quiz NEXT
CLASS (Friday, 10/9)
Part 3: Social Effects
of the Age of Discovery
How were people affected by European
exploration and colonization?
The Spread of Religion
• Americas: Spread of
Catholicism into Latin America,
Spread of Protestantism into North
America
• Africa: Attempts by
Christian (Protestant
missionaries) to convert natives
and eventually to convert slaves
The Spread of Religion
• Asia: Christian missionaries
successful at first in China (Catholic),
but eventually this causes controversy
Effects on Europe
• 1. Increase in territory lead to the
spreading of empires
globally
• 2. Competition
among European
nations (Spain,
Portugal, France,
England, and the
Netherlands)
Effects on Europe
• 3. Increase in wealth and circulation of
money (not
always a good
thing—it lead
to inflation of
the Spanish
economy)
• 4. Cultural
diffusion (foods,
plants, etc.)
Effects on the Americas
• 1. Large #s of Europeans emigrated to
North America (English, Dutch, other
western European nations) and South
America (Spanish, Portuguese)
• 2. Collapse of indigenous Incans and
Aztecs (fighting, disease, slavery)
Social Classes in the Spanish Colonies
• 3. Establishment of a rigid class system in
Spanish Latin America
– Peninsulares: European-born whites
– Creoles: American-born whites
– Mestizos: mixed ancestry between European
and Native American
– Mulattoes: mixed ancestry between European
and African
**Full-blooded Native Americans and Africans
would be at the very bottom of the social
structure.
Effects on the Americas
• 4. African Slavery
• 5. Colonial acceptance of
culture from mother country
Effects on Africa
• Europeans interested in : Establishment
of European trading posts along
coastlines
• Trading posts: Portugal first, then other
European nations like the Netherlands,
France, and
England
• Trade:
Slaves,
Gold,
Salt, other
products
Effects on Asia
• Who? Small groups of merchants from
Europe, especially the Netherlands
and Portugal
• Interested in?
Colonization/establishing trading posts
• Creation of influential trading
companies (British East India Co.,
Dutch East India Co.)
Effects on Asia
• Eventually, nations like Korea and
Japan isolate themselves from
European trade
• China restricts European trade as
much as possible.
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