historical globalization figures

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%%

  • establish french claims in canada

  • new trade routes

  • economic expansion

  • furs and fish

  • unable to find a route to asia through canada

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%%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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[[cartier[[

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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