European Explorers

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European Explorers

• Motivations for the movement
  
  • ​​religion
    • Spanish colonization introduced Christianity
      
    • the mission system
      
    • encomienda system to the Americas
      
    • transition to African slavery. 
• economic gain
  
• political rivalry
  
• Effects of exploration by Europeans. 

Important Explorers (significance & routes)

• England: Henry Hudson
  
• France: Jacques Cartier
  
• Portugal: Vasco da Gama, Bartolomeu Dias
  
• Spain: Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, Ferdinand Magellan, and Amerigo Vespucci. 

Prince Henry the Navigator

• influence on exploration
  
• voyages
  
• cartographic improvements
  
• tools related to exploration
  
  • compass
    
  • caravel
    
  • astrolabe. 
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 Columbian Exchange 15th ; 16th century impact on:

• people
  
• plants
  
• animals
  
• technology
  
• culture
  
• ideas 
• each continent's impact
  
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Transatlantic Slave Trade

• development of
  
• experiences of enslaved people
  
• in the Americas.