Unit 2 Age of Exploration

belief that a country’s power depended on wealth.

• Mercantilism

• Colonization

• Imperialism

• Europeanism

the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• Mercantilism

• Colonization

• Imperialism

• Setting

practice in which there is  control by one nation over weaker nation(s), usually resulting in an empire.

• Mercantilism

• Imperialism

• Colonization

Imperialism was driven by what two things

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Old world

• Triangular trade

famous for first expedition around the world, sailing through the Straits of Magellan and reaching the Pacific Ocean.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Vasco de Balboa

• Christopher Columbus

Amerigo Vespucci

• • discovered America in 1492 while searching for a new trade route to the Indies.

• • explored New Mexico and the southwestern United States.

• • famous for understanding the New World was NOT Asia but did recognize the new land was a new continent.

• • explorer who sailed around the southern end of Florida and back to the West Indies.

Ponce de Leon

• • led the first French expedition to explore the coast between the Carolina and Newfoundland, including New York and Narragansett Bay.

• • explorer who sailed around the southern end of Florida and back to the West Indies.

• famous for first expedition around the world, sailing through the Straits of Magellan and reaching the Pacific Ocean.

• first person to pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast  of South America on his ship The Golden Hind.

Disease spread through trade during the Age of Exploration