2009 2010 Exploration & Isolation

ExplorationLate 1400’s, 1500’s

When one group suffers, another group prospers.

What did Europe know?

Why start exploring?

• God

–Europeans wanted to convert people to Christianity (spread the word)

• Gold

–Spices, raw materials = $

–Eliminate the Italian,

Muslim middlemen

• Glory

–Renaissance spirit of inquiry

–Honor to their name, desire to be the first country to claim

• Mercantilism

–A nation’s strength depends on its wealth (measured in gold and silver)

–A country must be self-sufficient

–A colony exists for the parent country ($)

What did they find?

Impact of Exploration

• Countries began to establish empires (gain power)

Empiresaround1763

• http://history.howstuffworks.com/south-american-history/history-of-south-america2.htm

• Columbian Exchange (Reading)

–Exchange of plants, animals, people, disease and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere after 1492 (Why?)

• Pick five items that have had the greatest impact on North America today.

• Spanish encomienda

–Colonists given Native Americans to work the land

–Native Americans were taught Christianity

What do you think happened?

• Diseases and war

–Native American population dropped due to smallpox, measles, malaria and the flu

• Slavery–Triangular Tradehttp://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/aa/351px-Triangle_trade.png

Middle Passage www.socialistworker.co.uk/.../triangle_map.jpg

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R.A.F.T.S.R.A.F.T.S.

RoleRole: Slave ship: Slave ship

AudienceAudience: Ships today : Ships today

FormatFormat: Letter: Letter

TopicTopic: What did you see, hear, : What did you see, hear, smell, touch, taste?smell, touch, taste?

Strong verbStrong verb: Explain: Explain

Isolationism

She’s Isolated

• Isolationism

–Staying out of world affairs (trade, wars)

Good idea or bad idea?

What do you think?

Who became isolated?

• China

–Ming Dynasty

What is a dynasty?

–Great Ming Naval Expeditions

–What were the Naval expeditions?

1405-1433

•Zheng He sailed from the Indian Ocean as far as Africa

•300 ship fleets

•Demonstrated Ming China’s power

•P. 116

http://famoustraveler.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html

• Why become isolated?

–Voyages were expensive

–European traders

–Christian missionaries

–Potential loss of tradition

What do you think would result? Why?

• Results of being Isolated–Smugglers still brought in

products –Failed to keep up with European

advances–Religions stayed the same

• Japan– Shogun or

general took control in 1192

–Emperor had no real power

–Japanese Feudalism

–Japanese reading

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–Foreigners welcomed at first

–Christianity began to spread

–Foreigners were no longer welcome

–Japan was isolated for more than 200 years

• What is the overall impact of isolation?