2. Age of Exploration
Wanted a direct sea route to Asia
Opportunity for huge profits
New technology improved sea travel
Caravel ship
New cartography skills
Hour glass, compass, and astrolabe
3.
4. Early Travelers
Portugal
First country to venture into Atlantic
Proved you could sail around Africa
Under Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain
joined Portugal in the race to Asia
Columbus landed in Caribbean
Thought he was in India
5. Magellan
1519-Left with 250 me and
5 ships
Spanish-Funded
Named Pacific
Magellan was killed in Philippines
1522-18 men and 1 ship return
Proved world was round, much
larger than originally thought, and
no feasible trade route west.
6. Portugal
Concerned more about trade than
colonization
In 1500’s, Portugal dominated
trade with Africa and India
Colonized Brazil
7. Spain
Two Goals:
Acquire wealth (Gold)
Convert natives to Christianity
Conquistadors conquered large
American civilizations
Cortez-Aztecs; Pizarro-Incan
8. Spain (cont.)
By the 1600’s controlled much of N. &
S. America and the West Indies
Native American population declined
Mistreatment
European Disease
To replace them, Spanish began
bringing over Africans to do work
9. The Netherlands
In 1600’s, the Dutch pushed
Portugal out of Asia
Amsterdam became the major
trade city
Large Navy
10. France
French went to North America
and the Caribbean for trade
Looked for a Northwest Passage
Jesuit missionaries converted
natives
11. England
Established colonies to provide
raw materials/religious freedom
Early N. Amer. Colonies included
Jamestown and Plymouth
Pushed Native American tribes
west
12.
13. The Atlantic Slave Trade:
Trade Triangle
In 1600’s, European territories
based economies on slave labor
European ships carried
manufactured goods to Africa for
slaves.
The ships took the slaves to the
Americas and sold them.
The ships would bring back rum,
sugar and molasses
14.
15. Ch. 4 Sec. 4
Columbian
Exchange and
Global Trade
16. Columbian Exchange
Europeans introduced new
foods to colonies around the
world
Expanded trade led to an
exchange of ideas, goods,
technology, people, and
diseases
17. The Commercial
Revolution
By the 1600’s the nation replaced
the city as the basic economic unit
Growth of capitalism
Gov’t chartered banks
Joint-stock companies
18. Mercantilism
State’s power depended on wealth
Colonies provided:
gold and silver
raw materials
a new market for goods