Age+of+Exploration

By: Amanda Levin & Abi Lundstrom

1500-1800

** "Conquer or Die!" -Hernan Cortes ** __**5 People-**__ __**5 Terms-**__
 * 1) __**Christopher Columbus-**__ an important figure in the history of Spanish exploration was an Italian, believed he could reach Asia by sailing west instead of East around Africa
 * 2) __**Amerigo Vespucci-**__a Florentine, went on several voyages with Pedro CAbral and wrote letters to describe the lands he saw. These letters led to the use of the name America
 * 3) __**John Cabot-**__a Venetian seaman explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England. The Portugueses sea Pedro Cabral landed in South America in the 1500
 * 4) __**Ferdinand Magellan-**__Portuguese explorer who persuaded the king of Spain to fianance his voyage to find a sea passage to Asia through the Western hemisphere
 * 5) __**Vasco da Gama-**__Poruguese sea captain who went around the Cape of Good Hope and cut across the Indian Ocean to the coast of India, and made a lot of money transporting spices on this route
 * 1) __**Conquistador-**__ Also know as a Spanish conqueror of the Americas, they were individuals whose guns and determaination brought them incredible sucess.
 * 2) __**Balance of Trade-**__the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time. When the balance is faovrable, the the goods exported are of greater value then those imported.
 * 3) __**Colony-**__ A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control.
 * 4) __**Plantations-**__A very large agricultural estate that was set up along the coast of Brazil and on the Islands of the Caribbean to grow sugarcane.
 * 5) __**Triangular Trade-**__a pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa and Asia and the American continents, typically manufactured goods from Europe were sent to Africa, where they were exchanged for slaves, who were sent to America, where they were exchanged for raw materials that were then sent to Europe

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Europeans had remained in one area of the world for almost 1000 years. At the end of the fifteenth century, Europeans began to venture out and to travel the world unknown. The Portuguese took the lead in exploration by sailing down the coast of Africa and found a new source of gold. The next explorers were the Spanish; Italian Christopher Columbus attempted to get to Asia for spices by sailing west rather than east, and stumbled into the American continents.

During the last half of the fifteenth century, slave trade was becoming more popular. The slaves were transported by boat from Africa to the Americas. During the next two centuries, slaves became a part of the triangular trade route. Slave trade had bad effects on the people in Africa by depopulating some communities of their strongest men and women.

In 1511, Melaka was taken by the Portuguese and called Moluccas, known to the Europeans as the Spice Islands. This was the major reason why the Portuguese had originally wanted to go to the Indian Ocean. In the early 1600s, the Dutch seized a Portuguese fort in the Moluccas and slowly pushed the Portuguese out of the trade. From 1500 to 1800, Buddhism was becoming more and more popular and the political systems in SE Asia were all monarchies.

__**TIMELINE**__ 1492: Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas 1497: John Cabot and Amerigo Vespucci explore the Americas 1518: First boatload of slaves brought directly from Africa to the Americas 1519: Spanish begin conquest of Mexico 1520: Magellan sails into Pacific Ocean 1595: First Dutch Fleet arrives in India 1630: English Found Massachusetts Bay Colony 1650: Dutch occupy Portuguese forts in Indian Ocean trading areas 1700: English establish colonial empire in North America 1767: Burmese sack Thai capitol

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