Terms to know: lateen sails, compass, astrolabe, cartography, caravel ship, Ottoman Empire, spice trade, Silk Road, mercantilism, zero-sum, favorable balance of trade, tariff, exports vs. imports, joint-stock company, colony, Pizarro, Cortez, Conquistadors, Inca, Columbian Exchange, Triangular Trade, trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Middle Passage.
1. China and Japan’s reaction to Western exploration.
Advances made in China during the Ming and Qing Dynasty.
Christian missionaries in both China and Japan.
Japanese reaction to Christian missionaries.
2. Mercantilism
Economic System
Favorable Balance of Trade
Colonialization
3. Columbian Exchange
What was exchanged?
Who got what?
4. Spanish Conquistadors
What gave them an advantage?
Who were the leaders?
What was the impact of Spanish colonialization on the Americas?
5. Portuguese & Spanish Exploration
Where did they travel to first? Why?
What was impact on different peoples? Why?
6. Trading networks across Eurasia
Silk Road
Northwestern African Kingdoms
Ottoman Empire
How did this influence the development of exploration in Europe?
7. Triangular Trade
What was being traded?
Conditions and nature of trans-African slave trade.
8. European exploration
Motives driving Europeans to explore.
Technologies that made exploration possible.
First countries to explore and where.
Blank Europe Map (right click to download)
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