Age of Exploration
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European motivations for exploration: land, resources, spread religion, freedom
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European Explorers Total commander all version.
- Christopher Columbus: Italian explorer that voyaged the Atlantic funded by Spain to find a new way to reach the East Indies; discovered the New World instead (Bahamas)
- Hernan Cortes: Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire
- Francisco Pizarro: Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire
- Ferdinand Magellan: Portuguese explorer who went on a Spanish expedition and was the first to circumnavigate the world (travel around the world)
Triangular Trade
Mercantilism: belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
Encomienda System: controlled and regulated American Indian labor and behavior during colonization
Treaty of Tordesillas: agreement between Spain and Portugal to settle conflict over newly discovered land
Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment
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Galileo: believed the sun was the center of the universe but the Church did not like his ideas
Industrialization and Imperialism
Factors of production
- Labor
- Land
- Capital
Industrialization: period of social and economic change that transformed society from Agrarian to industrial (making by hand to making by machine)
Textiles: type of cloth or woven fabric made by machines
Imperialism: international bullying; industrialized countries try to control or take over other countries
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White Man's Burden
World War I
Triangular Trade
Mercantilism: belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
Encomienda System: controlled and regulated American Indian labor and behavior during colonization
Treaty of Tordesillas: agreement between Spain and Portugal to settle conflict over newly discovered land
Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment
World History Help Answers
Galileo: believed the sun was the center of the universe but the Church did not like his ideas
Industrialization and Imperialism
Factors of production
- Labor
- Land
- Capital
Industrialization: period of social and economic change that transformed society from Agrarian to industrial (making by hand to making by machine)
Textiles: type of cloth or woven fabric made by machines
Imperialism: international bullying; industrialized countries try to control or take over other countries
Help With World History
White Man's Burden
World War I
The main causes of WWI:
- Nationalism-which bully nation is the best
- Imperialism and the balance of power-which bully national controls the most
- Militarism/Arms build up-which bully nation is the strongest
- Secret Alliances-bully nations start to team up with one another, which is a recipe for disaster
