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Exploration and
Isolation
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- Created a desire by Europeans for new products from the Middle East and Far East (India and China)
- encouraged Europeans to take on an adventurous spirit and questioning attitude
- European monarchs are trying to increase their power by controlling TRADE, which generates $$$.
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Two areas causing problems for most European traders- Italian Merchants charged high prices
for goods from Middle and Far East
- Muslims controlled the Silk Road, which made it dangerous
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Europeans needed an All Water Route to the East
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Why did Europeans begin to explore new lands?
To gain more sources of wealth
Faster routes to Asia
Spreading of Christianity
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Why did Europeans begin to explore new lands?
Bartolomeu Dias
“To serve God and His Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do.”
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Why did European begin to explore new lands?
The Three G’s
To serve God and his majesty
To give light to those who were in darkness
To grow rich as all men desire to do
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What advances in technology made these voyages possible?
A medieval instrument, now replaced by the sextant, that was once used to determine
the altitude of the sun or other celestial bodies.
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Who is fighting for the 3 G’s and finding an alternative route to the
far East?
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Started a school of
navigation in 1419.
Sea captains, map makers, and navigator
met and exchanged ideas there.
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Bartolomeu Dias
Reached the southern tip of Africa7/2013
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Led a ship around Africa, to India, and back.
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How does Spain react to Portugal’s success? What does
this bring?
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Explored coasts of S.E. Asia,India, and S.E. Africa
Cultural diffusion
Chinese Explorer
Helped Establish trade between China & other areas
Stopped trade with outside world
The West industrialized but Chinawas left behind
Stopped Zheng He expeditions & voyages
Chinese will become vulnerable to future
European weapons & technology
Porcelain
Paper
Canal system renovations
New printing methods/books
Tools (better farming methods)
Great Wall renovations (towers added)
Poetry, opera, drama
Literacy increasing
Confucian Gov’t & traditions
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Traditional Chinese culture was ethnocentric due to its geography?
What was the only European country (people) allowed to trade with China after the Ming banned contact with foreigners?
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Did the Ming Dynasty restore Confucian government and traditions to China?
Did Chinese artists excel in drama, opera, and landscape painting?
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