Lecture 2 - From whence they came Europe 1500-1750

Mercantilism

Belief in the benefits of profitable trade

What became a Significant producer to wealth, created a new elite in Europe

Trade

Spice Route

Trade sea route, Asia, North Africa, Europe

Silk Route

Trade land route, Asia, Europe, North Africa

Who were early on the trade movement

Portuguese

What was an aggressive colonial thought process, driving trade/economic enthusiam?

Mercantillism

Who was fighting in the thirty year war?

Catholics and Protestants

What years did the thirty year war take place

1618-1648

Europe was highly _________

Competitive

Chrisopher Columbus ended up in America trying to find a trade route to India in

1492

Europe believed they were more _________ than other people they met outside Europe

Civilized

Although europeans saw themselves as sophisticated many were….

illiterate, dirty, with short life expectancys of 45 because of plauge and executions

How did Indigenous people view the Ocean?

Supernatural connection

How did Indigenous people veiw European boats and guns when they first saw them

boats - floating islands with clouds, firing of guns- lighting and thunder

Indigenous were initally impressed by europeans and their ____, ____,____ but it _____ ____ ____.

glass, metal, beads, didnt last long

Jacques Cartier

French explorer

Jacques Cartier voyaged to Americas in ____ and _____

1534 1535

by the time Cartier landed in america the indigenous were already ____ ___ ___

ready to trade.

What are some goods that benefited the Europeans in trade with Indigenous

Warm clothes, Show shoes, canoes

Europeans brough an array of diases with them from america such as

Small pox, influenza, tuberculosis

______ and ____ shared diases back and forth

Europe Asia

Why were the diases one way traffic of going from Europe to the new world.

domestication of animals created these diases, Europeans had already survived and built immunity, Indigenous didnt.

Europeans brough ________ with them to _____ indigenous

Missionaries convert

Indigenous who got _________ got better trade rates

Baptized