ch 7 - the portugesee and spanish explorations

Causes of the age of exploration

• new trade routes

• wealth for countries

• wealth and fame for explorers

• marco polo

• religion (the need to spread it )

• renaissance infleunce

• new tech in ships (navigation instruemnts, caravels, lateen sale, sqaure sail, bow sail, rudder)

Treaty of tordesillas

• to prevent war between spain and protugal

• everythign to right was spanish, and left was protuguese

tell me about columbus

• italian

• sponserbed by king and queen of spain

• wanted to reach asia, but found america instead

• was followed by the conquistadors (pizzaro and cortes)

tell me about cortes

aztects,

• native tribes helped in because they didntlike taxes and slavery aswell as being sacrificed

• he destroyed their city qand made mexico city

Pizzaro

• incas in peru

• found golf and silver

• spain became very wealthy

Impact of conquest and oclonisation on the new world

• aztects and perus dead

• gold and silver for europe

• brutal treatemnt of natives

• new diseases to new wolrd

• new animals and plants

• new farming methods

• new language and culture

• new relgion

Colonisation impact on people in americas

• slave trade

• plantations

• spanish system (haxiendas)

• religon and language

• economy

• architechtrue and town planning

• new clothing

• commemoratio and controversy

Impact on spain and portugal

• they got rich

• inflation

• commemoration

• interdepndance

• commemoration