Age of Exploration
Who, Why, When, Etc…..
Spain and Portugal on eve of
Encounter
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Reconquista
Expulsion of Muslims and Jews
Factors that led to exploration
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God
Glory
Gold
Technological Advances
Spain and Portugal’s expansion
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Prince Henry
Portuguese explorers reach Asia
Dias
 Da Gama
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Columbus and the New World
Introduction of encomiendas
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Line of Demarcation
A sketch of the world at the end of the 1400s
French and English Colonists
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French and Dutch
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Nomads
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English
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Fur traders
Single men
Interacted with Native
Americans
“New France”
French and Indian War
Settlements along the
Coast
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Jamestown
Pushed Native Americans
westward
Families
Poor relationships with
Native Americans
Columbian Exchange
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Definition- global transfer of foods, plants and
animals during the colonization of the Americas
Spread of Diseases
Small pox, measles, influenza, whooping cough
 Syphilis
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Rise of Capitalism
Mercantilism
Slave Trade
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Horrible conditions from capture to arrival in
Americas
African Cooperation and Resistance
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Slavery in Americas
Consequences
Journey of African slavefrom capture to 3-4 years later
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100 captured in Africa
75 taken to the interior market place
64 to the coast of Africa
57 to the ships
51 stepping on Brazilian soil
48 would meet plantation owner
28-30 still be alive 3-4 years later
What was the #1 killer of Africans on boats?
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Dehydration
World Economies
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Inclusion of Americas in world system
Commercial Revolution
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Expansion of trade and business that transformed
European economies during the 16th and 17th c.
Growth of cities and rise of merchant class