ExplorationLate 1400’s, 1500’s
When one group suffers, another group prospers.
What did Europe know?
Why start exploring?
• God
–Europeans wanted to convert people to Christianity (spread the word)
• Gold
–Spices, raw materials = $
–Eliminate the Italian,
Muslim middlemen
• Glory
–Renaissance spirit of inquiry
–Honor to their name, desire to be the first country to claim
• Mercantilism
–A nation’s strength depends on its wealth (measured in gold and silver)
–A country must be self-sufficient
–A colony exists for the parent country ($)
What did they find?
Impact of Exploration
• Countries began to establish empires (gain power)
Empiresaround1763
• http://history.howstuffworks.com/south-american-history/history-of-south-america2.htm
• Columbian Exchange (Reading)
–Exchange of plants, animals, people, disease and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere after 1492 (Why?)
• Pick five items that have had the greatest impact on North America today.
• Spanish encomienda
–Colonists given Native Americans to work the land
–Native Americans were taught Christianity
What do you think happened?
• Diseases and war
–Native American population dropped due to smallpox, measles, malaria and the flu
• Slavery–Triangular Tradehttp://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/aa/351px-Triangle_trade.png
Middle Passage www.socialistworker.co.uk/.../triangle_map.jpg
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R.A.F.T.S.R.A.F.T.S.
RoleRole: Slave ship: Slave ship
AudienceAudience: Ships today : Ships today
FormatFormat: Letter: Letter
TopicTopic: What did you see, hear, : What did you see, hear, smell, touch, taste?smell, touch, taste?
Strong verbStrong verb: Explain: Explain
Isolationism
She’s Isolated
• Isolationism
–Staying out of world affairs (trade, wars)
Good idea or bad idea?
What do you think?
Who became isolated?
• China
–Ming Dynasty
What is a dynasty?
–Great Ming Naval Expeditions
–What were the Naval expeditions?
1405-1433
•Zheng He sailed from the Indian Ocean as far as Africa
•300 ship fleets
•Demonstrated Ming China’s power
•P. 116
http://famoustraveler.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
• Why become isolated?
–Voyages were expensive
–European traders
–Christian missionaries
–Potential loss of tradition
What do you think would result? Why?
• Results of being Isolated–Smugglers still brought in
products –Failed to keep up with European
advances–Religions stayed the same
• Japan– Shogun or
general took control in 1192
–Emperor had no real power
–Japanese Feudalism
–Japanese reading
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–Foreigners welcomed at first
–Christianity began to spread
–Foreigners were no longer welcome
–Japan was isolated for more than 200 years
• What is the overall impact of isolation?