Transcript Europeans Cross the Atlantic

Europeans Cross the Atlantic
Ideology of Gold,
Glory & God
Why Go West?
• Gold
- Trade routes to Asia blocked by Muslims
- Faster, safer travel sought by merchants
• Glory
- Competition between Spain, Portugal, England &
France for wealth and control of the seas.
- “Second born” sons who could inherit no property
sought their fortunes in the New World.
• God
- Kings wished to spread their own faith to do “God’s
work.
Columbus’ Gamble
Get there… or be ridiculed, imprisoned
maybe even die if you don’t!
Columbus Lands
Third Trip - Trinidad
Columbus’ Impact
• Brought 3 worlds together –
Spain
Native America
Africa
• Created Competition with Portugal, France & England for the
New World.
• Spanish Conquest destroys native population through, battles,
disease and overwork.
- No workers to develop the land
- Spanish Hidalgos’ Ideology resists work
- Begin importing slaves from Guinea (Africa)
Tradition of slavery begins
Impact on Europe
• Power shifts occur for 1st half of 1500s.
- Command of seas goes to Spain.
- Acquires wealth from Mid-American Gold.
- Bitter Competition with Portugal, which
Owns the Slave Trade
• Prompts exploration by England and France
France & Spain Catholic…England is Protestant
Treaty of Tordesillas
• 1493 - Spain & Portugal Agree to divide up
colonization of New World.
• Pope Mediates & draws a line in Atlantic
- Spain gets most of Americas (West)
- Portugal gets Brazil (East)
• Impossible to enforce
• No effect on England,
France or Holland
Columbian Exchange
• Global exchange of
people, food, animals
and disease, between
Europe and the New
World (Americas)
What Ideology Drove It?
• Interpret the sequence of events just
examined and write a 5 sentence
paragraph describing the ideology that
drove Columbus and the Spanish to the
New World.