World History 2 A-L
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- Importance of Magellans voyage
- showed pacific ocean seperated Asia from the Americas... showed that the pacific ocean was much larger than originally estimated... discovered that the 4 major oceans were all connected... Ocean winds followed a pattern... with this information Europeans could travel anywhere in the world that they wished
- the motives or reasons for exploration
- God- spread of christianity... Gold- desire for wealth and power.. Glory- renaissance spirit of curiosity, adventure and the hope and fame... Technology- better ships, maps, and instruments made it possible
- Vasco Nunez de Balboa
- settler in Hispaniola looking for gold, was the first to cross the Ismith and was the first European to look out ypon the Great South Sea later named Pacific by Magellan
- colonies were not allowed these privaleges
- Industry, self-government, so that they would not hope for independance
- Amerigo Vespucci
- made trips for both portugal and spain
- many Indians welcomed the portuguese but othes were persuaded by ___
- cannons
- Juan Ponce de Leon
- Established a port in Porte Rico, came across Florida and named it so because it was full of flowers, he was looking for the fountain of youth
- Magellans death
- he and his crew went to the Phillipines and got involved in a war with some of the locals. Magellan and some of his crew were killed but one ship sailed back Spain. this voyage was the first to circumnavigate the world
- mother countries wanted colonies to be what?
- totally dependant
- Vasco Da Gama
- was sent by portugal on a diplomatic mission; took cannons and trading goods
- Bullion
- Gold and silver bars
- mother country takes all _________ bank to homeland for processing and then sells them to the colonies
- natural rescorces
- Monopoly
- Complete control over a good or service
- Mercantilism
- countries got strong and stayed that way by getting more gold and silver and colonies than other countries and exporting more than they imported
- Portugal
- led Europe in exploration looking for a sea rout to India
- Christopher Columbus
- from Italy, his plan was to figure out a western rout to India when everyone was going east
- Prince Henry the navigator
- spent his own money to build a naval station in SW portugal called Sagres
- Columbus' ships were
- Nina Pinta Santa Maria
- Portugal searched for nearly ___ years along the ___ coast of Africa
- 70, West
- trading post
- settlements established along river mouths and coasts where trade was carried on and they were used to store goods to sell or barter for slaves, ivory, and gold and to store supplies for use on future voyages
- Importance of Chistopher columbus' journy
- first European settlement in Americas, made three more trips bringing 17 shiploads of settlers
- Treaty of Tordesillis
- moved the line further West giving portugal control of Brazil and the rest of the Americas went to Spain
- King Ferdinad and Queen Isabella of spain
- paid to outfit Christopher with three ships
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Spanish king paid him to explore the Pacific Ocean. saled along the coast of south America and stayed in the strait of Magellan during the winter.
- Cape of ___ was what Dias named the S tip of Africa
- Storms
- Scurvy
- Sailors were getting sick because they were not getting fresh fruit and the vitamin c that they needed in there systems. ships began to carry lime juice
- Admiral of the Ocean sea
- was a special title given to chrisopher Columbus by Queen Isabella
- Colonies existed for the benifit of the ____ country
- Mother
- control of the spice trade
- Portugal controlled the dye and spice trade with India
- Bartholomeu Dias
- Dias and his crew were sailing and caught in a storm and crossed the tip of Africa and in the morning they relized that the sun was on the right side instead of the left, so they were going north and there was land on the left of the ship. Dias had descovered a sea rout to the Indian Ocean
- Plantations
- type of agriculure system set up by the portuguese using large farms run bu portuguese but worked by African slaves; crops were used for exports and not to be sold locally; this type of agricultrure became important for maintaining slave trade for so many years
- the Papal line of Demarcation
- established line by the pope in the Atlantic Ocean giving Spain possession of all lands already discovered and all non christian lands west of Europe and portugal got all the lands east of Europe
- Cape of _____ was what the king of Portugal named the S tip of Africa after the sea rout to India had been descovered
- Good Hope