Title: Effects of Exploration

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• Title Effects of Exploration
• Preview In what ways was the Age of Exploration
  a positive time period? A negative time period?

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Age of Exploration

• Effects of Exploration

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Positive Effects

• Increased Wealth
• Europeans gained new sources for raw materials
  did not have to pay anyone for these goods
• Europeans gained new markets to sell products
• Gold was most valuable resource led to immediate
  wealth

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Positive Effects

• Technological Advancesgained new ideas through
  cultural diffusion
• Magnetic compass, astrolabe
• Better maps
• Caravels
• Thermometer, barometer
• Printing Press spread new ideas

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Positive Effects

• Columbian Exchange
• New crops were introduced in Europe from the
  Americas Corn, potatoes, beans, chocolate,
  pineapples
• New products from Europe were introduced in the
  Americas Wheat, grapes, horses, cows

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Positive Effects

• Political Powers
• Major shift in power a nations power now
  determined by its wealth (mercantilism)
• Spain Portugal became the strongest European
  powers after creating large number of colonies

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Positive Effects

• New EmpiresEuropean nations created large
  numbers of colonies
• Spain Central South Americas
• Portugal Africa, Brazil, Spice Islands (East
  Indies)
• England France North America
• Netherlands New York, Cape of Good Hope, Spice
  Islands (from Portuguese)

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• Map Activity

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Negative Effects of the Age of Exploration
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Negative Effects

• Asian empires were dominated
• India Spice Islands were under control of
  Europeans who used cotton spices as luxury
  imports in Europe
• China Japan were influenced by Christian
  missionaries European weapons but were
  influenced by European merchants (Japan began
  isolate itself under Tokagawa)

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Negative Effects

• Native American civilizations destroyed
• Native Americans were not immune to European
  diseases (smallpox)
• Forced into slavery
• Used tribes against each other
• Intermarriage with Conquistadors
• Conquistadors took land and natural resources

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Negative Effects

• Plantation System
• Europeans developed large, single-crop
  plantations to produce cash crops for Europe
• Depleted natural resources
• Led to need for large, slave labor force to work
  fields

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Negative Effects

• African Slavery
• Europeans needed labor force to work in Americas
• Triangular Trade developed
• Europeans produce manufactured goods, traded for
  African slaves
• Slaves taken to Americas, sold for money to buy
  raw materials
• Raw materials taken to Europe to make
  manufactured goods

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Negative Effects

• Triangular Trade
• The transportation of African slaves from the
  West Coast of Africa to the New World
  was called the Middle
  Passage