World History
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Bell Work Week 10: Wednesday 03.25.15
Respond to the following in the space for Wednesday on your bell
work paper.
If Columbus had understood the real geography of the world,
would he still have made his voyage? Why or why not? Do you
think other explorers would have made their voyages as well?
Support your answer.
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Chapter 14 Vocabulary Quiz Tomorrow 3/26/15
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Table of
Table
ofContents
Contents
Unit 7: Global Age
Video Notes: Rwanda
Reading Summary
Notes: Expansion in Africa
Unit 7: Global Age
Notes: Scientific Revolution
Video notes: Copernicus
Reading Summary 13.5
Vocabulary: Chapter 14
Why Explore?Chart
Reading Summary 14.1
Notes: Exploration
3-2-1 Video Notes
Notes: Exploration
Video Notes: Magellan
Video Notes:Rwanda
Reading Summary
Notes: Expansion in Africa
Early European Expansion in Africa
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
What effects did European
exploration have on the people of
Africa?
Topical Questions
•
How did the Portuguese establish footholds
on Africa’s coasts?
•
How European actions affect the slave
trade and the rise of African states?
•
How did the European presence in Africa
expand?
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Text Marking:
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By the 1400s, Europe’s demand for trade goods, especially
valuable spices, was growing. The chief source of spices was
the Moluccas, an island chain in present-day Indonesia. Arab
and Italian merchants controlled most trade between Asia and
Europe. Europeans outside Italy wanted their own access to
Asia’s trade goods.
Prince Henry encouraged Portuguese sea exploration. He
believed that Africa was the source of the riches the Muslim
traders controlled. He also hoped to reach Asia by going along
the African coast. Cartographers prepared maps for the voyages. In 1497, Vasco da Gama led four Portuguese ships
around the southern tip of Africa. Evenually, they reached the
great spice port of Calicut on the west coast of India. Soon, the
Portuguese seized ports around the Indian Ocean and created
a vast trading empire.
Now others looked for a sea route to Asia. The Italian navigator Christopher Columbus persuaded Ferdinand and Isabella
of Spain to pay for his voyage. In 1492, Columbus sailed west
with three small ships. When the crew finally spotted land, they
thought they had reached the Indies, or Southeast Asia. What
Columbus had actually found were previously unknown lands.
The Spanish rulers asked Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI
to support their authority, or power, to claim the lands of this
“new world.” The pope set the Line of Demarcation. This
gave Spain rights to lands west of the line; Portugal had rights
to lands east of the line. Both countries agreed to these terms in
the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Europeans still had not found a quick sea route to Asia,
however. In 1519, a Portuguese nobleman named Ferdinand
Magellan sailed west from Spain to find a way to the Pacific
Ocean. In 1520, he found a passageway at the southern tip of
South America. Magellan was killed along the way, but the
survivors of this voyage were the first to circumnavigate, or
sail around, the world.
Review Questions
1. Why did European explorers seek a direct sea route to Asia?
2. Who was Vasco da Gama?
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Once you have
read the
summary and
marked the
text, answer the
questions.
In the 1400s, Portugal wanted to trade directly with
Asia.
They set up small
trading posts.
They traded muskets
and tools for gold,
ivory, hides, and
slaves.
Rounding the Cape of Good Hope, they sailed
up the East Coast.
In the 1500s, Europeans began trading for slaves on a
large scale.
Europeans relied on African rulers and
traders to seize captives in the interior.
African slave traders
brought captives to
trading posts and
forts on the coast of
West Africa.
There, the captives
were exchanged for
guns, rum, tobacco,
and other goods.
Over the next 300 years, the Atlantic slave trade grew
into a huge and profitable business.
Africans were sold to work
on large plantations in
North America, South
America, and the
Caribbean.
A slave auction in the 1700s
Some African leaders unsuccessfully tried
to stop the slave trade.
Affonso I of Kongo had been converted to
Christianity by Portuguese missionaries.
In the 1500s, he tried to persuade Portugal to
end the slave trade, but he was ignored.
The transatlantic slave trade would last for 300 years.
The slave trade caused some small African
states to disappear and powerful new slavetrading kingdoms to arise.
• In the late 1600s, Osei Tutu
unified the powerful Asante
kingdom in present-day
Ghana.
• By conquering neighboring
people and creating an
efficient government, he
gained monopolies over the
gold and slave trades.
European Presence in Africa Explodes
Dutch Boers in South Africa, England, France, Germany –all want
Africa’s riches
In 1652, Dutch settlers founded Cape Town, the first
permanent European colony in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Cape Town was settled by the Dutch farmers
called Boers.
• Over time, they ousted, killed, or enslaved
local Africans.
• Boer herders and ivory hunters moved inland,
setting off a series of wars-Boer War.
RAFT- ROLE–AUDIENCE-FORMAT-TOPIC
Chose a role: Slave, African Slave Trader, European Slave Trader,
Plantation Owner
Audience: King John III of Portugal
Format: letter
Topic: slavery
DUE by the end of class.
Finish your summary and vocabulary when you finish.
Independent Practice
Finish the reading summary and
complete the questions, annotate the
text.
Work on your vocabulary.
Vocabulary Quiz Tomorrow
TEST MONDAY!