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5 European countries that Pioneered in Maritime Explorations & Colonization

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Portugal
Spain
England
France
Netherland

3 motives of Exploration
1. God
2. Gold
3. Glory
Portugal Exploration
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Established school of navigation

Islands discovered West of Portugal


1. Madicras
2. Azores Islands
Famous Portugese Explorers:
1. Bartolomeu Dias
- Discovered Cape of Good Hope in 1487
2. Vasco de Gama
- Discovered Calicut, India in 1498
3. Pedro Cabral
- Discovered Brazil 1500

Spains Exploration
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Christopher Columbus
Reached San Salvador, Bahamas aboard Santa Maria on October 12, 1492
Amerigo Vespucci ( Americus Vespucius)
The New World was named after him (America)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513
Juan Ponce de Leon
Searched the legendary Fountain of Youth but instead found Florida in 1513
Ferdinand Magellan
Sailed from San Lucar, Spain in 1520 aboard the ship Victoria with Sebastian de Elcano, the ship
captain

Division of the World between Spain and Portugal

Pope Alexander VI
1453- King Ferdiand and Queen Isabela of Spain requested the pope of Rome to divide the world between
Spain and Portugal
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He drew a demarcation line" from North Pole to South Pole at 100 leagues west of Azores and
Cape Verde Islands

Treaty of Tordesillas a treaty signed to define the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal in 1494
Zaragoza antemeridian 1529 to claim the Phil. by Spain.

Englands Expoloration
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John Cabot (1497 under Henry VII)


Searched for a westward rule or Northwest Passage
Discovered Labrador & New Scottia
John Hawkins
Francis Drake
(1577 under Queen Elizabeth I who did not like King Philip II)
-sea pirate who plundered Spanish Galleon

3. James Cook (1760)


-explored South Pacific, Antarctica, coast of western Australia & New Zealand
.4. Puritans 16th century
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A persecuted Protestant group in England who migrated from England to East Coast of what is
now the United States
Jamestown Virginia first English settlement in America (1607)
Spanish Armada 1568
Spanish Fleet defeated by England
Exploration of France
1. Giovani Verrazano
Discovered Newfoundland in 1524
2. Jacques Cartier
Discovered St. Lawrence River in 1535
3. Samuel de Champlain
Established first French settlement in Canada (Montreal, Quebec) in 1608
4. Robert de la Salle
Sailed the Mississippi River up to the Gulf of Mexico and renamed it Louiscana in honor of
Louis XIV of France

Exploration of the Netherlands


1. Cornelius von Houtman-1595

- Traded with East Indies


2. Henry Hudson-1609
discovered northern coast of Australia
3. Abel Tasman- 1642
- Discovered Rasmania and New Zealand
- New Amsterdam- first Dutch settlement in America renamed New York by the British in 1664

Colonization/ Colonialism
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The system or policy which a nation seeks to extend or retain its authority over people or
territories

Imperialism
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The policy of extending the rule of an empire or nation over foreign countries or of acquitting and
holding colonies or dependancies

Colonialism/ Neocolonialism
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Culture replacing the culture of others


Multinational companies penetrating other markets/countries

New Imperialism
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The control of a super power over countries over less developed countures

Slavery
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Is the gruesome practice of selling and buying of people

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White Slavery
Forced Labor
Human Trafficking
Drug Trafficking and Drug use
Pornography of all kinds including cyber sex
Recruiting and including children to fight as combatants in military force , rebel or terrorist
groups

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