Exploration

=__Review guide for Friday's quiz__:=

Why did Christopher Columbus want to try to go west to find a way to Asia? What happened on the first and second time he went to the New World? How did his relationship with the Native Americans change over time? Christopher Columbus wanted to go west to find a way to Asia ,because he wanted to find a new faster route. Their goal was to win access to the land so they can trade with India and China. Wasn't Christopher Columbus looking for China at first but then he found Asia?

Why did so many Native Americans die soon after Europeans came to the New World? What did the Europeans do as a result of this? How did the Atlantic Slave Trade work? The indians had died of european dieases also they lived in horrible enviroments. The Europeans went to Africa and captured slaves since the indians were dieing of fast. People would go off the coast and the village leaders had taken them and gave them up to the europeans to be enslaved.

How did many slaves go from Africa to America? How many went? Why did slaves come from Africa and not some other part of the world? What were the long-term effects of the slave trade?  M any slaves went fom africa to america by boats. 15 million slaves were trade. slaves cam from africa because they wereavailable. Many African leaders were selling slaves to the Europeans and other countries. They were transported on a boat but many died from many disease so the people trow their bodies from the boats. About 200 African American slaves died in the boat.

Who was Hernando Cortes and the conquistadors? What did they do? What helped them become successful? He was Spanish soldier who decides to ho to Cuba He was Spanish soldier who decides to go to Cuba into Mexico to conqures the New World. The conquistadors were the sixteenth century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America. He destroyed the Aztecs empire. Modern weapons helped cortes achieve victory.

Why didn't Asia or the Middle East explore and discover the New World? Did they come close? How would the world be different if they had discovered America?

= = = = = = =__**European Exploration:**__=

__European Motives for Exploration__:

=GLORY- BECOME FAMOUS AND MAKE THEIR COUNTRY POWERFUL   =

=GOLD- PERSONAL WEALTH, AND WEALTH FOR THEIR COUNTRY    =

=GOD- BRING CHRISTIANITY TO THE WORLD =

__Why could they not go east through the Middle East to trade with Asia?__
__Why couldn't the Europeans go east to trade with Asia but take a northern route through Russia?__

Because the middle east isoslated themselves since they won the crusades and the holy land. Muslims would not allowed Europeans to trade through their lands.

=__**Christopher Columbus' Voyage to the New World:**__=

__How he got to the New World:__ Columbus convinced the Spanish king and queen support his exploration towards West to find India. What were the names of his ships? Where was the first place he stopped? Where did Columbus think he was going to land? I think Columbus was thinking that he will land in China but he actually landed in a place where people were nice to him and he came back because he liked the gold.

__Who did he meet:__ Columbus met Native Americans in the new land. He called them Indians because he thought he landed on Asia.

__How did he interact with the Native Americans:__ Columbus gave them gifts exchange gold and goods.

__What happened when he came for a second, third, and fourth time:__ Columbus forced Native Americans find gold for him. If Native Americans couldn't find certain amount of gold for Columbus, their hands are cut for punishment. When Columbus came back he came with many women on the ships which the Native American thought he will not leave.

__The death of Native Americans when they came in contact with the Europeans__: The Europeans brought diseases that Native Americans first exposed. Finally, Native Americans were killed from the deadly diseases without cure.

=__**Asia misses a great opportunity to explore the New World: ( What were they doing at the time of exploration?)**__=

__China:__ They were Isolated themselves. They started to farm more. They did not like outsiders in their land, because they thought they would not need new land to live because they already got good lands

__Japan:__ They still had feudalism and had isolated. They were not strong enough to explore.

__Middle East:__ They kept isolated by themselves. They won the crusades and got the holy lands. They had been trading.

__**What would have happened if China had discovered and colonized America?**__
In the America, there might be another country which is based on Asian cultures and people, and Asians are probably powerful in this world instead of White people. People in the world would try to learn chinses instead of English. The world's center would be East Asia, and Europe would be the side areas. However, there wouldn't be most powerful country that maintain the world's order as the U.S.A does, so many countries would have trouble between them. We would probably be speaking Chinese instead of english and Europe will be reacher probably.

=__**Atlantic Slave Trade:**__=

After Europeans conquerer American, they used Native Americans as slaves work for them. When Native Americans died out, they went to Africa to buy slaves and sent to America. Then, they carried food, tobacco, and sugar back to Europe.



__How did they get the slaves over to the shore? From there, what was it like to on the ship when they came over? What were the effects of slavery?__ Slaves were marched by their owner to be sold. when they got to the shore, they rode a boat to New World. The boat was pretty mass because so many people rode in a one boat. Many people, about 20% of slaves died in the boat because of the diseases. Because European got many slaves, they could made a lot of resources and export ,many resources to their land. The slaves were sold by their people, the village leaders sold slaves to Europeans, and slaves were transported to Europe by ships. the ships were full of slaves. they could only go to the bathroom once a day, and sellers poured salty water from ocean to slaves. Many slaves died on the ship, and the sellers just throw them in the ocean.