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The Age of Exploration: GOD! GLORY! GOLD!
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GOD, GLORY, GOLD
3 general motives for European exploration
GOD- spread Christianity (sometimes by force)
GLORY- recognition and fame for discoveries
GOLD- wealth from discovery of gold, spices, and other profitable resources
Groups of Explorers
What's Your Condiment?
Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes, Vasco Da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan, Francisco Pizarro and John Cabot are 7 of the most well known explorers whom we will learn about. You will be broken up into 7 groups and where you will research, orally present to class. I have chosen the groups for you.
Ranch? Ketchup? BBQ Sauce? Mustard? Salt? Pepper? Franks Hot Sauce?
Can you imagine never eating french fries without ketchup or pepper on your steak?
Where do you think we get the ingredients to enhance our food?
How far are you willing to to go get them?
Spice Things Up
-Europe was curious about Asia because of Marco Polo's travels
-desire for trade and discovory, especially spices of East Asia
- spices needed to preserve and flavor food (Pepper, cloves, nutmeg, sugar, etc.)
- expensive after Arab middlemen shipped them to Europe
-Explorers (Christopher Columbus went in search of West Indies (India) to get spices, ended up in Americas
A Quote by Christopher Columbus upon first contact with Native Americans......
"They (the Arawak Indians) ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned.... They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane.... They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
Religious Zeal
-Conquistadors (Spanish conquerors) conquered South and Central America, looking for spices, gold, other treasures
-not only found resources, but also millions of indigenous people (Native Americans)
-believed it was religious duty to convert Indigenous people to Christianity
-Why would Europeans, especially Catholics, want to convert people from the America's to Christianity?
SugAAARRs of the Caribbean
My Precious...
- In addition to spices, Europeans went in search of gold and other precious metals
- Portugal took lead in European exploration, discovered Gold in West Africa
--->led to exchange goods for slaves
-European settlers found that the Caribbean islands worked great for growing sugarcane (very profitable crop)
-Who will work our fields?
-Cheap labor from Africa
-ultimately brought about
the Atlantic Slave Trade