Exploration and Expansion Ch 16

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Exploration and Expansion Ch 16

• World History and Geography
• Mr. H

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Science Rules

• The Scientific Revolution saw people use science
  to solve everyday questions
• The Scientific Method uses hypothesis and
  experimentation to find truth.

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You, are like, so conceited, Earth -the Sun

• (1500s) Nicolaus Copernicus began to argue that
  the sun is the center of the universe-gtHeliocentri
  c theory
• Galileo was one of the first to use telescopes to
  prove the heliocentric theory correct

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Some Enlightened Dudes

• Newton-Studied the laws of gravity
• Vesalius- made breakthroughs with human anatomy
• Boyle- developed the modern subject of chemistry

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Why Leave Europe?

• 1.Improved Technology
• 2. Commercial Revolution-banks developed
• 3. New LandMore money
• 4. Religion

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Famous Explorers

• Portugal
• -Henry the Navigator- sailed to N. Africa
• -Bartolomeu Dias- Sailed around Cape of Good Hope
  (S. Africa)
• Vasco De Gama- sailed around Africa to India

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In 1492..

• Columbus sailed for Spain and landed in the
  Caribbean.
• Treaty of Tordesillas- Portugal gets everything
  east, Spain gets everything west

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And a bottle of rum.

• Now that Europe had control of the Caribbean,
  slaves were taken from Africa to work the
  sugarcane fields.
• Slaves taken from Africa to Caribbean, rum from
  Caribbean to America and Europe

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Carving of Africa

• Several countries controlled parts of Africa to
  ensure a source for slaves.
• The Netherlands established a vast empire with
  many territories

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Colonization, the good, the bad, the ugly

• Good for Europe
• -New lands meant more gold, silver, and money
• -Prestige grew as empires grew

• Bad for Europe
• -Africa was raped of independence
• -Europe became dependent on New World
• -Colonies began to rebel

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Extra credit riddle time!

• I begin in Hamlet and can be seen at the
  conclusion of MacBeth. I am in your house, and
  also in the middle of nowhere. Who am I?