Global Connections
Global Connections
  • Overview
  • Quests and Achievements
  • Contributions of Henry The Navigator
  • Portuguese Trade Port Empire
  • The Spanish and Dutch
  • Seven Years War
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Interactive
  • Overview
  • Quests and Achievements
  • Contributions of Henry The Navigator
  • Portuguese Trade Port Empire
  • The Spanish and Dutch
  • Seven Years War
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Interactive

global Connections

Megan Brownrigg, Anna Krum, Katie Bennett, Connor Farrell, Carol Varghese, Maria Guedilla, Seth Holst

1. Describe how the quest for resources, new trade routes and missionary impulse created new nautical achievements that led to the exploration of the globe.
  • They started building stronger ships
  • They added rudders to the back of their boats
  • They used astrolabes and magnetic compasses to navigate
  • Added a new type of sail to use in crosswinds
  • Started keeping track of wind patterns to get places more efficiently
  • A new strategy, the volta do mar, was created to avoid sailing against the wind
  • Compasses and astrolabes were replaced by cross staffs and black staffs

2. Explain the contributions of Henry the Navigator.
  • He himself never actually went on any voyages, but he was a patron of navigators, explorers, and map makers
  • His expeditions travelled down the west African Coast
  • His main focus with expeditions was trade, along with many other purposes
  • Made a court specially for those who centered in travel and trade
  • The naval observatory he established is one of his most important contribution to exploration
  • He was determined to discover a route to India that travelled south and around the southern tip of Africa

3. Analyze the depth of the Portuguese Trade Port Empire.
  • Portuguese took early lead
  • Tried to control completely control trade in the Indian Ocean
  • Afonso d' Alboquerque set up safe-conduct passes policy
  • Couldn't completely control trade because there was a lack of men

4. Describe the incursion of the Spanish and Dutch into South East Asia.
  • Spanish came into control of Philippines, and the Dutch controlled Indonesia
  • Spanish focused on silk trade and spreading Christianity
  • Relied on Chinese merchants for the wealth they brought to major trading centers like Manila
  • Dutch focused on spice trade
  • They wanted to control all spice trade and production so they established a VOC monopoly over it, and profited highly

5. Evaluate the importance of the Seven Years war.
  • Pitted Britain against Frances
  • Caused over trade and colonial expansion
  • First world war, you can argue
  • End of war put Britain in position to control and create a massive empire and dominate world trade.

6. Evaluate the Colombian Exchange.
  • The Columbian Exchange was the global diffusion of plants, food crops, animals, human populations, and disease pathogens
  • It was caused by the voyages of exploration from Christopher Columbus and other European mariners
  • Crops, animals, and diseases were transported between the Old World and the New World and they had both positive and negative effects (and some vice versa)
  • Overall, the human population increased as a result of the Columbian exchange
  • The biological changes that occurred because of the Columbian exchange were very significant and important and even had an impact on us today
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