Title: Age of Exploration
Author: Thorsen
Last saved by: Technology Coordinator

Modern World History                              	Age of Exploration                            	            Mr. Thorsen

Pre-Exploration Civilizations

Americas pgs. 20-21		
-Bering Strait migrations
-crops grown in 7,000 B.C.
-3 centers of civilization
	-Mayans
	-Aztec
	-Inca 
Asia  pgs. 36-37
-China
    -Chinese inventions

-Japan
     -natural disaster problems
     -1st race in Japan
     -which goddess founded Japan
     -Chinese civ is basis for Japan
     -1st emperor
     -4 main parts of Japanese
       society
	-social structure of Japan
	-Kamikaze

Age of Exploration
-goal and reasons for exploring 
	-moluccas
-4 technologies that allowed deep sea exploration
-1st country to explore
	-Prince Henry
	-Vasco de Gama
-Christopher Columbus
-Columbian Exchange List pg. 134
-Treaty of Torsadias
-Ferdinand Magellan and circumnavigation pg. 89
	-tisk tisk with the natives
-Conquistadors watch out natives.  They didn’t come to play
     -Hernando Cortes
	-Montezuma & Quetzlcoatl
	-reasons for downfall of Aztecs
     -Francisco Pizarro
	-Atahualpa & Huascar
	-reasons for downfall of Incas

Spain
-route they controlled
-basic regions controlled
-main commodities from New World
-T/F pgs 116, 118
	-Social hierarchy of colonies  

Portugal
-route they controlled
-main commodity
-lost colonies to?

France & Britain  
-T/F pgs 121-122	
-searching for which route
-commodity found with high demand in China
-reasons why colonies founded

Dutch
-countries colonies they stole
-Joint-Stock Companies
     -Reason established

Slave Trade
-triangular slave trade
-was it more profitable to maintain a slave’s life than to work them to death?

Mercantalism
-export more than you import
-resources for mother country and market

Asia
-newspaper pgs 98-103

Map Locations
Andes Mountains, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, China, England, Japan, Holland/Netherlands, India, Portugal, Spain, Yucatan Peninsula