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Chapter 13
Section 1
Video about Discovery
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1.) Search for New Trade Routes
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Wanted goods from the East, China, Spice Islands
Italians had a monopoly
Muslims attacked
Fees
Thus, people went searching for new route.
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2.) Quest for Gold
◦ In Africa
◦ Began searching, but often ended in losses
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3.) Desire for Adventure and Glory
◦ Many died along the way
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4.) Religious Concerns
◦ Late 15th century, Moors still controlled Southern
Iberian Peninsula
◦ Fall of Constantinople 1453.
◦ Sought out Prester John in Africa…never found
◦ Missionaries to Muslims
Prester John
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5.) Competition Among European Nations
◦ Commercialism
◦ Trade settlements and colonization
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1.) Maps
2.) Instruments:
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Compass – created by Chinese
Astrolabe
Quadrant
Cross-Staff
◦ Video of Making your own compass
Compass
Astrolabe
Quadrant
Cross Staff
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1400s – ships built for long distance
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Sails instead of Oars
Triangle sails by Arabs
Square sails by Vikings
Thus we get Caravel
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Let’s Set Sail Video
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Portugal and Spain were in the lead
◦ Turned Southward to Africa
◦ Crusading spirit
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Portugal
“greatest figure in the history of
exploration”….never went on one
Intrigued by Africa
Started “school” of navigation
Sponsored astronomers, mapmakers, sea
captains, etc.
◦ Allowed for navigational improvement of tools
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Set sailors out to explore Africa
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30 years after Henry’s death, Bartolomeu sent
to Africa by Portuguese king.
In search of another route to Orient
Accidently found route around Africa’s tip in
a storm.
Tip of Africa called “Cape of Good Hope”
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10 years after Dias, da Gama sent to follow
but find India
1497, sent with 4 ships
Went way out of the way…closer to South
America than Africa
1 year after beginning, he reaches India
Met Muslims, but still traded enough to pay
for his trip 60xs.
Portuguese took over this route, and
destroyed Muslim monopoly.
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Italian
Studied Ptolemy and Marco Polo
Believed you could reach Japan and China by
sailing West
Portugal refused to fund, but Ferdinand and
Isabella of Spain did
1492, left with Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Catholic, believed he was commissioned by
God to spread Gospel.
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Men wanted to turn back.
Two days later, founded San Salvador
Actually in Bahamas. Went to Cuba and
elsewhere
3 more voyages, and he landed in Venezuela
Always thought he had reached Orient
Opened Indian slave trade
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Vikings originally came over in 10 and 11
centuries
Some believe Phoenicians came over before
Christ
17 Century, Americas were a safe Haven for
Christians
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Spain and Portugal fighting for trading rights
Pope divides the world between the two
1493, Pope issues a bull called “The Line of
Demarcation”
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Results:
◦ 1.) Portugal colonizes in Africa and East Indies
◦ 2.) Spain got most of New World, except Brazil
 This is the reason Brazilians speak Portuguese
◦ 3.) Spain had to find a westward route to India and
China
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1519 – realized North America was NOT the
Orient
Wanted to sail around South America
Spent winter in tip of South America
Called natives “Patagonians” AKA “Big Feet”
Now called “The Strait of Magellan”
One ship deserted, one sank
Called “Pacific” AKA “Peaceful”
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Ran out of supplies, many starved
Reach Philippines, Magellan killed by natives
Continued without him, found Spice islands,
went around Africa and found home.
18 out of 200 men returned alive
First to circumnavigate
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“Indians”
Possibly crossed Bering Strait
Some were farmers
Other followed herds
Believed in “Great Spirit”
North American Indians mostly in tribes
5 major North American Indian Regions
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1.) Northeastern Indians:
◦ Formed 5 tribe confederation led by Iroquois
◦ Known for wampum, shell money, birch- bark
canoes
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2.) Southeastern Indians:
◦ Mound Builders
◦ Still exist
Etowah Indian Mounds
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3.) Plains Indians
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Roamed grasslands
Hunted buffalo
Tepees
Fought with other tribes
Didn’t use horses till Spanish brought them
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Southwest Indians AKA Cliff Dwellers
◦ Built villages “pueblos” out of adobe, sun dried
bricks
◦ Build into cliffs
◦ Most peaceful of NA Indians
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West Coast Indians
◦ Totem poles depicting local gods
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Central and South American Indians more
civilized
Large cities, trade, art, literature
Pagan and superstitious
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1.) Maya
300-900s
Many city-states in Yucatan Peninsula
Pyramids, temples
Altars, highways
Hieroglyphics
Astronomy
Computed length of year, built astronomical
observatories, mathematics
◦ Worshipped false gods, feathered serpent.
◦ Mayans diminished, some moved on
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2.) Aztecs
◦ Around 1345 founded city of Tenochtitlan (tay
NOACH tee TLAHN ) on an island in central Mexico
◦ 4 mile long bridges to island
◦ Temple with 20 other temples
◦ Canals
◦ City called “The Venice of the New World”
◦ Fighters with army
◦ Conquered 5 million people
◦ Never developed a real empire
◦ Sacrificed their enemies, sometimes priests ate
them
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3.) Incas
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1380-1570 along Western coast in Peru
Families lived in communes and shared possessions
Farmers, raised maize, potatoes, cotton
Their ruler “The Inca” worshipped as god
This is a genuine empire
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Conquered peoples and took territory
Abolished cannibalism
Well built cities
Well-constructed roads
Road from Cuzco to Quito
Suspension bridges
Mail could travel 150 miles a day!
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Spanish sent conquistadors
◦ Looking for gold
◦ Converting to Catholicism
◦ Establish Spanish authority
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Used guns and horses.
◦ Only a few men could conquer a whole tribe
◦ Conquistadors were very cruel
◦ Murder for riches
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Came to convert….but killed instead
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Wanted adventure, but worked on a farm in
Hispaniola
Upset, so stowed away to main land
Became a soldier, and took over
Moved site to Panama
Complaints to King against Balboa
◦ Needed gold to settle king
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1513, set out to find the ocean
◦ Wanted to be first to see it, called it “South Sea”
◦ Magellan renames it “Pacific” 7 years later
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Arrested on false charges and beheaded
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1519- “greatest of the conquistadors”
Landed in Mexico
Sunk ships
Going toward Aztec capital
Montezuma (Aztec King) thought Cortes was
the returning god Quetzalcoatl (ket SAHL koh
AH t’l)
Lavished Cortez with riches….but intensified
greed
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Uneasy peace, then war
Massacred Aztecs
Montezuma stoned by own people
1521, Cortes defeats Aztecs
Began building Mexico City
A viceroy would rule
People continued to plunder
Cortez returns to Spain in 1539, dies 8 years
later
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Cruelest of conquistadors
Wanted gold
Followed Balboa across the Isthmus, then
went South
Arrived in Peru, set out to destroy everything
Captured Atahualpa (AH tah WAHL pah), the
Inca ruler…held for ransom
Received tons of gold, and twice as much
silver
Still killed Atahualpa
Destroyed Incas with only a few men
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2 years later, found Lima
Spaniards killed him in his home for the gold.
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Roman Catholic friar/missionary
Wrote against his countrymen
One Indian burned at stake for not becoming
Christian
1542, helped pass “New Laws”, keeping
natives from becoming slaves
Got rid of conversion by force
However, saw conversion only as becoming
member of church
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1539 – Hernando de Soto lands near Tampa
Bay
Found Mississippi River
Lead to further exploration of North America
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado – 1540
Set out to find “Seven Cities of Cibola”
Lead through New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas,
and Texas
Some men found Grand Canyon
These explorers believe North America was a
waste….little gold.
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Other nations angry to be left out!
Thus, onward they go!
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3 voyages to eastern Canada
1534 – Newfoundland and Labrador
1535 – sailed up St. Lawrence River. Named
area Montreal “Mount Royal”
Looked for “Northwestern Passage”, but never
found it
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70 years later “Father of New France”
Explored and colonized around St. Lawrence
River
1608, founded Quebec
Indians led him to two great lakes
Still looking for passage to Pacific
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Jesuit Missionary – Marquette
Joliet - friend
1673-Canoed down Mississippi River to AR
Later, Sieur de La Salle, 1682m claims
Mississippi River for France
Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV
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Went to find shorter route to East
Explored Northeast in his slip Half Moon
1609 – went up river to Albany, NY
1621 – Dutch founded New Amsterdam,
modern day New York City
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Shortly after Columbus, lands in Canada
Praised by King Henry VII
1498, came back with son, Sebastian
Found no gold, but fisheries
Lead to English settlement
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English came to develop the land, not exploit
it like Spanish
1607 – Jamestown, first permanent
settlement
John Smith build the town
1608 – it burns
New governor Lord de la Warr – gave new life
Protestant settlers
John Smith
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Established trading posts in India
Fully armed ships protected them from
Muslims
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Viceroy of Portuguese holdings in East
Didn’t promote Native violence
Build trade
Captured and controlled entrances to Persian
Gulf and Red Sea
After his death, 1520, take Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and
Banten
Banten allowed them to control water passages
to the Orient
1542 – began trade with Japan
1557 – founded colony of Macao on Chinese
mainland
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Problems for Portugal
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Spread out too Far
Lost man power because of death at sea
Asians hated the European because of cruelty
Asians began allowing other nations to trade
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Not rich, but good sailors
1596 – settled on Java and Sumatra, expelled
Portuguese from Banten
Japan would only trade with Dutch
Traded from Persia to Japan
Needed food and supplies, so had a
settlement in Cape of Good Hope (Cape
Town, South Africa)
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Defeated Armada 1588
1591 - made trading voyage to India
Captured Persian Gulf
Traded on East and West of India
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East did not like the West
Claimed lands for king and souls for God
By 1550, already battles between China and
Portugal
Portugal paid $30,000 a year to colonize
Macao
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Japan accepted Europeans better
Invited Francis Xavier
Didn’t want Christianity.
Persecuted missionaries
1639, kill any Portuguese
“Closed Country”
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Land was not the decider of wealth
Money was the main medium
Change in the air called Commercial
Revolution
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Mercantilism was dominant economic system
Wealth should benefit “mother country”, thus
hoard money
◦ 1.) Become self-sufficient
◦ 2.) acquire colonies
◦ 3.) Maintain Balance of trade
 What colonies provided the mother country: By
establishing colonies, European nations hoped to become
self-sufficient.
 Colonies supplied the mother country with raw materials so that
the mother country would not have to lose specie to other
countries to pay for the materials.
 Colonies provided markets where goods from the mother country
could be sold so that the mother country had customers for their
products.
 Prohibitions placed on the colonies:
 The colonies were not allowed to produce anything that the
mother country produced, for that would be competition.
(Remember, the new found wealth was supposed to benefit the
mother country.)
 Nor were the colonies allowed to trade with anyone but the
mother country.
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2 flaws:
◦ 1.) create monopolies and deterred competition
◦ 2.) Didn’t view as a “two-way-street”
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Capitalism allowed people to advance wealth,
investing, creating jobs, etc.
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To safe-guard themselves, they created
companies, this everyone shared gains and
losses
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Thus came joint-stock companies
◦ Capital
◦ Dividends
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Three main joint-stock companies
◦ 1.) English East India Company – 1600 and thriving
◦ 2.) Dutch East India Company – 1602
◦ 3.) The French Company of New France – traded
furs in Canada
◦ These 3 set up settlements
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