Exploration & Expansion 6.

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Motives and Means
Attracted to _____________
Economic Motives
Hopes of expanding ____________
Esp. ____________; Needed to preserve & _______________
Convert Natives to __________________
The 3 Gs
G________
G________
G________
The Portuguese Trading Empire
________________ took the lead in EUR _________________
1420 under the sponsorship of _____________________________ began exploring AFR W coast
Discovered ____________
Southern coast of W AFR aka: ________ ___________
1488 Bartholomeu Dias rounded the _______________________
Vasco da Gama reached Calcutta and returned with a cargo of _________ and made a profit of several
___________ %
Melaka is located on the ___________-- Pen.
Home to the ___________ Islands (Moluccas)
Reasons PORT were successful explorers: ___________ & _________________
Voyages to the Americas
Columbuss Voyages
_________________ empire opposite from PORT
Christopher Columbus was from ______________
Believed he could reach Asia by going _________
Persuaded _________________________ of SP
Oct 1492 reached ______________
Landed on the island of ________________
Believed he was in ___________
3 more voyages trying to find route to ______________________
Reached all major islands of the __________________ & Honduras
Called them the ______________
Line of Demarcation
SP & PORT feared the other might _________________________________
Treaty o9f Tordesillas (1492) divided new ___________
East of line _____________ control
West of line ____________ control

`Race to the Americas

Venetian explorer _____________________ explored ___________________ coast
for ENG
Florentine explorer ________________________________ wrote letters describing new land
Used the name _____________________ for the new lands
Why the a ending? (leave blank- will fill out in class) _______________________
______________________________________________________________________________________

The Spanish Empire

Spanish conquerors _____________________________
Hernan Cortes overthrew ___________________ Empire in Cen. America
Francisco Pizzaro took control of the ________________ Empire in S. America
*W/in 30 years W. Latin America under _______ control
Queen Isabella declared Native Americans her ____________
Why
were
they
called
__________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Native Americans were put to work on ____________________ and mines
Forced labor, starvation and ________________________took toll on natives
Hispaniolas pop 1492: _______________; 1538 ________________
Mexicos pop 1519: _________________; 1630 _________________
Native Am society was torn apart by ___________________________________.

Indians?

Economic Impact and Competition

Colonist est. ___________________ and ranches
Raised ____________________________________________________________ to export
Columbian Exchange- exchange of ____________________________ between old and new worlds
SP est themselves in the _______________________
Ferdinand Magellan ___________________, turned place into major SP base
1595, Dutch fleet arrived in ______________
Formed ________________________ and W. India Co., competed with SP and _________
New Netherlands ___________ colony
1660 seized by ____________
1600s FR control ___________ and Louisiana
1700 ENG col empire off eastern ______________
Also set up sugar plantations in the ____________________
Colony (def)____________________________________________________________________________
Mercantilism (def) ______________________________________________________________________
Nations prosperity depends on large supply of gold ____________
Must have favorable bal of _________________________________________
To encourage exports govts stimulated __________________________________________
and trade