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Who and when was the first time the earth was circumnavigated? |
Ferdinand Magellan and his free 1519-22 |
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What advantages were there to geographical and navigational discovery? |
Knowledge and global trade dominated by European hands: gold, silver, textiles, spices, timber, hides & furr>*] |
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How did Europeans often treat indigenous peoples? |
Aggression, massacre, kidnapping, rape, plunder, slavery. Power of indigenous greater that Europeans, like Asia & Ottoman Empire, Ming Dynasty the € were supplicants and observers instead of conquerors & settlers. |
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What impact did € expansion have on social and cultural changes? |
€ languages spread & used Christian presence in America’s & parts of Africa & Asia. |
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What two events do some historians see as the start to Europe’s Age it Discovery? |
Portuguese capture of Moroccan port of Ceuta 1415. - 1437 Portuguese beaten at Tangier. Retook in 1472 and lost again. 2) the Ottoman victory over the Byzantine Empire in last siege of Constantinople in 8-wk siege in 1453. Byzantine seen as a Christian and Ottoman challenge in blocking trade East and challenging € dominance of Mediterranean & Balkans. Meant blocked natural path of expansion by land. |
