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Traditions & Encounters: Chapter 23 Notes

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CHAPTER 23: TRANSOCEANIC ENCOUNTERS AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS --- EXPLORATIONS Reason for exploration- God, Gold, Glory* Benefits of exploration- enabled mariners to chart ocean basins + develop accurate understanding of geography / merchants + mariners make global communication/transportation/exchange = $$ Vasco de Gama [1497] Portugal > India [christianity + spices] Prince Henry the Navigator [lived 1394-1460] [1415] sponsored voyages down w. African coast Christopher Columbus [1492] proposed sailing to Asia using western route reached cuban islands, claimed India exploration paved way for settlement, conquest, and exploitation of native americans Ferdinand Magellan [1519-1522] first world circumnavigation under Spain Captain James Cook [1768-1780] 3 expeditions in pacific

Traditions and Encounters Chapter 23 Test Bank

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CHAPTER 23 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was a. Dias. b. Columbus. c. Cook. d. Magellan. e. Vasco da Gama. * (p. 597) 2. During the early modern era, which of the following non-European peoples explored the Indian Ocean? a. Japanese b. Chinese * c. Egyptian d. Mongols (p. 598) 3. Which of the following was not one of the main inspirations for European exploration? a. the desire to conquer China and India * b. the search for basic resources c. the desire to establish new trade routes to Asian markets d. the desire to spread Christianity e. the search for lands suitable for cultivation (p. 599) 4. The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was

Marco Polo info

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Marco Polo- An Italian adventurer who returned to Europe in 1295 after his twenty-year sojourn in China and began telling tales of it. Indirect discoverer of the new world.
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transoceanic encounters and global connections

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Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections Cool story 1497 Vasco da Gama arrives at Lisbon instead of India. He was Portuguese and aimed to go around Africa and through the Indian Ocean, and carried many heavy treasures in search of spice. They instead sailed to Cape Verde Islands and also went southwest into the Atlantic and saw no land because they wanted to take advantage of the prevailing westerlies. Took 10 months after departure from Lisbon to reach India, but there they found a wealthy society. He traded gold for pepper and opened doors for trade Background

Ovid vs Shakespeare Essay

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Chapter 13-1 Vocab: Ibn Battuta- Moroccan Muslim Scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the Western Sudan. Tropics- Equatorial region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. It is characterized by generally warm or hot temperatures year-round, though much variation exists due to altitude and other factors. Temperature zones north and south of the tropics generally have a winter season.

chapter 13-1 notes Ap world history

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Chapter 13-1 Vocab: Ibn Battuta- Moroccan Muslim Scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the Western Sudan. Tropics- Equatorial region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. It is characterized by generally warm or hot temperatures year-round, though much variation exists due to altitude and other factors. Temperature zones north and south of the tropics generally have a winter season.

A people and a nation chapter 1 outline

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European Exploration 9/9/13 9:55 AM Why Exploration? What changed in Europe in the mid 1400s-1500s that exploration of the world becomes a focus? Consolidation of power in England, France and Spain Those in power and future monarchs get more control over their land Invention of the triangle sail (rather than square sail). They can now control the ship better and take advantage of the wind and sail farther into the Atlantic. Before they were trapped in the Mediterranean Printing press Created in Germany Marco Polo?s ?Travels? becomes more widely available. This increases peoples? interest in exploration. Increases communication between countries and within a country. Seek people to come and help explore Exiting the Dark Ages

Samuel De Champlain

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Samuel De Champlain was a French explorer who sailed to the West Indies, Mexico, and Panama
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Spanish and British Exploration

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Tr? Seals September 16, 2010 AP U.S. History Journal Prompt 1 The Spanish had much more time to expand than the British. Spanish exploration began in 1492, while the British didn?t begin exploration until the late 16th century. By the time the British stepped in, the Spanish had already controlled over half of the U.S., all of Mexico and the Caribbean, and all of South American except Brazil. The British were left with the East Coast of the U.S. and all of Canada.
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