the Early European Settlement

What is the age of exploration?

When European countries explored the world

Which countries were involved in the age of exploration?

Spain, Portugal, England, France, and the Netherlands

What were the effects of the age of exploitation

Globalization (people ideas goods)

Colonization (settling into a new area)

Slavery

Colombian exchange

Reasons for exploration

Gold, God, and Glory

Christopher Columbus

Spain, found America instead of wanting to find Asia, and marked beginning of the age of exploration

Juan Ponce de León

Spain, searched for gold and for the Fountain of Youth, and explored now known Florida

John Cabot

England, hoped to find Asia but instead found America, and his group was the 1st to explore America

Jacques Cartier

France, wanted to claim Canada and was successful at doing so, and mapped out the area

Ferdinand Magellan

Spain, goal was to sail to Asia, sailed around the world (circumnavigation), and sailed through a straight in South America

Hernán Cortés

Spain, goal was to colonize New Spain, capture the Aztecs, renamed New Spain to Mexico

Francisco Pizarro

Spain, goals were to capture the Inca and explore modern Peru, killed Athanulapa

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Spain, goals were to explore the Southwestern U.S., hoped to find the Golden Cities, 1st to find landmarks

Lateen sail

Triangular sail, 45 degree angle, sailed in any direction

Magnetic Compass

Points North, needle aligns with Earths Magnetic field, used to check direction

Astrolabe

Measured latitude by measuring the angle-horizon to the Sun or North Star

Caravel

Small, fast ship, made for long journeys, had lateen sails

Aztecs

Worshipped Gods, festivals, sacrifices, Hernán Cortés brought smallpox, conflict with Christianity

Maya

Area in rainforests, worshipped ancestors, sacrifices, diseases, battles

Inca

1200s to 1500s, no written language, Francisco Pizarro killed the emperor

Taíno

Diseases, Christopher Columbus, enslavement, chiefdom, 1492, Caribbean

Iroquois

1600s to present day, believed in the Great Spirit, French and Indian war

What was the Atlantic Slave Trade?

From 1500s to the 1800s, people owned other people to do agricultural labor. They used a triangular system from Europe to Africa to America. The Atlantic slave trade was painful.

What was the life aboard slave ships?

Miserable, hot, restless, hunger, thirst, need for bathroom, sickness, chained down.

What was the Colombian Exchange?

1400s to 1500s, transferred/trade, traveling ships, European exploration

What effects did the Columbian Exchange have on the world?

Lost population- lead to famine (disease)

Changed farming and eating (plants)

Transportation and helped farming (animals)

Ideas, religions, and languages (humans)

Less biodiversity (enviroment)

Perspective

Point of view, a particular attitude or a way of regarding something

Property Rights

The exclusive authority to determine how a resource is used, whether that resource is owned by government or by individuals

Market

Any place where two or more parties can meet to engage in a economic transaction

Supply

A fundamental economic concept that describes the total amount of a specific good or service that is available to consumers.

Demand

A consumers desire to purchase goods and services and willingness to pay a specific price for them.

Cost

The total expenditure incurred when utilizing comic resources to produce goods and services.

Consequence

Effect of an incident, event, or occurrence, on the value of property or on the production, trade, distribution, or use of income, wealth, or commodities.

Resource Allocation

The assignment of available resource to various uses.