Europen Settlement of the New World
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- Crusades
- military expiditions to win control of Palestine, or the Holy Land
- astrolabe
- instrument used to measure latitude
- compass
- instrument used by sailors to learn their direction at sea
- Marco Polo
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-personal friend to the ruler of China
-wrote book about travels
-book increased curiosity about the Far East - Bartholomeu Dias
- 1st European to round Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa
- "glory, God, and gold"
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three goals of Spanish expansion
fame and wealth
spread Christianity - Samuel de Champlain
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"father of New France"
French explorer
Founded Quebec - two groups of traders and where they took their goods
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-Muslim and Chinese traders
-Towards Europe
-Italians
-to and throughout Europe - 3 goals of Prince Henry the Navigator
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-spread Christianity through Africa
-a share in the African slave trade
-commerce w/ the Orient -
Line of Demarcation
-who issued it
-what did it do -
-the pope
-end disputes between Spain and Portugal when they claimed the same lands
-Spain west of line
-Portugal east of line - Magellan
- circumnavigate the globe
- Four main social classes in Spanish America
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-European-born Spaniards
-creoles - born in Amerca to Spanish settlers
-mestizoes - mixed Spanish and Indian
-slaves - positive agrigultural contributions to the New World
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-horses -sugarcane
-cattle -oranges
-donkeys -lemons
-pigs -olives
-sheep
-wheat - negative effects
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-introduction to new diseases
-when forced to learn Spanish ways the natives forgot much of their own culture
-americas lost valuable resources when removed to enrich Spain