key takeaways:
- establishing important and new trazde routes
- exchanges of knowledge and culture
- exploration improved geography knowledge
- technological advances (ships, cartogrophy)
- contact with canada’s native people
- new colonies and settlements
- most voyages were to find a sea route to asia, most of them failed their orginal mission
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%%marco polo 1270 italy%%
trade
- established new trade routes in between europe and asia
- descriptions of the wealth in asia encouraged european merchants to establish trade relationships
knowledge exchange
- his accounts of travels provided europeans with knowledge of asia
- cultures, customs, technologies
- helped to foster communication and understanding between different parts of the world
exploration
- inspired other explorers to seek out new lands and cultures
cultural exchange
- greater exchange of ideas and culture between europe and asia
- asian food, clothing → europe
- european art, music, lit., → asia
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%%bartholemeu dias 1481-1500 portugal “failed”%%
- exploration of the african coast
- tasked by the portuguese king to find a sea route to india
- exploration of new trade routes
- expansion of portuguese influence
- navigation and cartography
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%%christopher columbus 1492 spain “failed”%%
- tried to find a route to the spice island
- thought he was in india
- first to successfully sail the atlantic ocean
- started a part of the slave trade
- exploration of new territories
- caribbean, central and south america
- 1492 → find a western trade route to asia
- landed in the bahamas
- expanded european influence
- colonization of the new world
- technological advancements
- cultural exchange
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%%john cabot 1496-1498 england “failed”%%
sailed to modern day newfoundland trying to find a route to asia
recognized the importance of the abundant fish, opening it up to fishermen and traders
feud with the french over claims of the new world
first recorded european exploration of north america (1497) since the vikings
second voyage → claimed land for england
saw a french fleet off the newfoundland coast
helped establish english claims to north america
opened up new trade routes
advanced geographic knowledge and cartography
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%%vasco de gama 1497-99 portugal succeeded%%
- tried to find a route to india
- first european to reach india by sea
- met with hostility but he managed to secure a trade relation
- opened up a sea route between europe and india bypassing the overland routes
- allowed portuguese traders to establish lucrative trade and become a major maritime power
- direct trade route between europe and asia
- transformed the global economy
- inspired others to embark on voyages, furthering globalization
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%%hernando cortez 1519-1521 spain succeeded%%
- went to mexico to find gold
- wanted to create new spain
- found the aztec civilization
- put himself at the top and overthrew them with the help of neighbouring tribes and enemies
- allowed spain to establish a major colonial presence in the new world
- paved the way for the colonization of the americas
- european diseases, weapons, technology decimated native populations
- conversion of religious people, spanish culture and language
- wealth brought back to spain fueled dominance
- financed economic expansion
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%%francisco pizzaro 1524-1528 spain succeeded%%
- conquered the inca empire
- brought gold and silver to spain
- established spanish dominance
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%%jaques cartier french 1534-1541 failed%%
%%martin frobisher england 1576-1578 failed%%
wanted to find northwest passage to india
found baffin island and frobisher bay
increased knowledge of the arctic region
fish,fur, minerals
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%%sir walter raleigh 1585 england failed%%
- gold in el dorado
- colonized for the english
- resource acquisition
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first voyage: 1534
- funded operation
- to find a western passage to asia
- gold or diamonds
- settlement land
- farmland
- made contact with the native people (beothuks)
- newfoundland has horrible land
- settled because of the abundance of fish
- mikmak and iroquois
- claimed land for the french
- took the iroquois chiefs sons to france
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second voyage: 1535
- funded again this time bigger
- went to where present day quebec is
- sons reunited with their father
- went to niagra falls for riches
- took the iroquois chief (donnacona) and others to bring to france
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third voyage: 1541
- iroquois he captured had died
- iroquois were hostile so he did not build a settlement near them
- began collecting stones that they thought were valuable
- hostilities broke out between the french and the iroquois
- french aggravated tensions between native groups to get allies
- huron and algonquin vs iroquois
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settling north america
- waste of money
- winters bad
- natives hostile
- rapids bad
- did not find the way to india
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left behind
- way to access the inside of north america
- tensions with the iroquois
- name of canada
- building blocks of new france
- maps, drawings
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<<champlain<<
- arrived in nova scotia in :1604
- wanted to develop a fur trade industry
- fur trade was already established in the region
- wanted to establish permanent french settlements in the region
- introduced “castor gras d’hiver” and “castor sec” to distinguish between qualities of the furs
- established a settlement at quebec in 1608
- played a role in the conflict between the french and the iroquois
- shot and killed the chief
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