Exploration Flashcards
(49 cards)
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Eric the Red
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- Viking/ Norse
- discovers Greenland
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Leif Ericson
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- Vikings/ Norse
- discovers NA from Greenland and Canadian Coast to RI
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Zheng He
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- Chinese explorer
- travels to Saudi Arabia and East of Africa
- Chinese don’t get much credit for the Age of Exploration
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Chinese credit in Age of Exploration
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They don’t get much credit because they were so ahead in innovations and isolated themselves, Europe got ahead.
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Phoenicians
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- known for navigation
- made it to the Caribbean sea (on their coins)
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Polynesians
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- found DNA in South America (theory)
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God, gold, glory
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- convert others to Christianity, “Gods Will”
- silk and spice trade and beat Italian monopoly
- for fame, for explorer recognition, for country and king
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Astrolabe
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Navigation tool for latitude
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Log System
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For speed and direction in navigation.
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Keel
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Keep ship upright, balance with wind and sail.
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Rudder
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For steering
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Lateen Sail
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- triangle sails
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caravel
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ship that puts all of the new technology together for explorers and trade
14
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Who was the first to start exploring?
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Portugal
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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- establishes a navigation school (shipbuilders, math, astronomers, captains)
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Gold Coast
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10% of the world’s gold supply, located in West Africa
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Bartholomew Diaz
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- rounds the tip of Africa in 1488
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Vasco Da Gamma
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- 1497 makes it to Calicut, India and brings back silks and spices for 6 times the cost
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Alexander VI
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- makes the treaty of Tordesilla (Alexander VI treaty) in 1494
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Vespucci
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- sails up East of NA in 1499
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Cabral
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- finds Brazil in 1500
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Treaty of Tordesilla
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- splits the world between Spain and Portugal
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Line of Demarcation
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- the line in the treaty of Tordesilla splitting the world
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Columbus
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- sails from Spain in 1492 and finds islands in NA, thinks they are in China
- voyages to Caribbean (CR, Columbia, Venezuela)
- dies no $
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Balboa
- crosses Panama and claims the pacific, proving they weren't in China
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Magellan
- first to circumnavigate the globe
- leaves w/ 5 ships and 1 comes back
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Ponce de Leon
- looks for the fountain in Florida and claims it
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Cortes
- leaves from Cuba and goes to Mexico
- fights Aztecs and is successful because they have better tech and weapons, SMALLPOX
- pretends to be Quetzalcoatl the GOD
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Monteczuma
Ruler of Aztecs
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Dona Malinche
- slave that helps Cortes
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Pizarro
- explores Ecuador, Peru and conquers Inca people
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Atahualpa
Inca emperor
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DeSoto
- explores SE US to Mississippi
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Coronado
- explores SW US, CO to KS
- brings horses with him changing American life
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Valdivia
- claims Chile
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Encomienda System
- gave landowners right to force North Americans to work the land
- Native American slave died too quickly or ran away so the importation of African slaves came into practice
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The Caste System
- people are born into it
- Peninsulars are the highest position, white parents and born in Spain or Portugal
- Creoles are below them, white parents but born in New World (wealthy and educated)
- Mestizo/Mulatto are below them, white and NA parent, they are wage earners and laborers
- Slaves/ NAs
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Verranzano
- explored for France up the East Coast of NA
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Cartier
- explored entrance to St. Lawrence River Seaway
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Champlin
- explored St. Lawrence River to Great Lakes
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Marquette and Joliet
- explored Great Lakes, upper Mississippi river and Ohio river
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LaSalle
- explored Mississippi River to Gulf of Mexico
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Cabot
- explored for England
- coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
40
London Company
the first British settlement in NA
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Hudson
- Hudson River and NY, NJ, DE for England
- Hudson Bay for the Dutch
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New Amsterdam
Dutch Settlement
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Colombian exchange
- exchange of goods between Europe and the New World
- Europe got corn and potatoes and NA got disease and HORSES
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Trade Triangle
Between...
- slaves in Africa
- cash crops tobacco and sugar in the Americas
- guns and manufactured goods in Europe
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Mercantilism
- a country's economic policy
- power is determined by wealth
- favorable balance of trade to your country
