Connell High School World History Chapter 6 PowerPoint

2. Chapter Introduction
Section 1: Exploration and
Expansion
Section 2: The Atlantic Slave
Trade
Section 3: Colonial Latin
America
Visual Summary

3. How are the Americas
linked to Africa?
The demand for enslaved Africans increased
dramatically after Europeans began to settle
in the Americas. The Cape Coast Castle in
Ghana is one of the forts where enslaved
Africans were held until ships arrived to take
them to the Americas. This fort could hold
about 1,500 slaves usually locked in dark,
crowded dungeons for many weeks. Today,
the Cape Coast Castle contains a museum
that allows people to learn about slavery. In
this chapter you will learn about the
exploration of new lands and its global
impact.
• Why might people want to visit the Cape
Coast Castle?
• Does slavery occur in any parts of the
world today?

6. Exploration and
Expansion
In what ways did European
nations prosper through
exploration in the fifteenth
century?

7. The Atlantic Slave
Trade
How did European
expansion and the slave
trade affect the people of
Africa?

8. Colonial Latin America
How did Portugal and
Spain profit from their
colonies in Latin America?

10. The BIG Idea
Competition Among Countries Europeans began
exploring the world in the 1400s, and several
nations experienced economic heights through
worldwide trade.

11. Content Vocabulary
• conquistadors
• encomienda
• Columbian Exchange
Academic Vocabulary
• overseas
• percent

12. People and Places
•Hernán Cortés • Ferdinand Magellan
•Portugal • John Cabot
•Vasco da Gama • Amerigo Vespucci
•Melaka • Montezuma
•Christopher Columbus • Francisco Pizarro
•Cuba

13. Do you think spreading religion is a
justifiable reason for colonizing
native peoples?
A. Yes
B. No A. A
B. B
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A
B

14. Motives and Means
Europeans began to explore distant
lands, motivated by religious zeal and
the promise of gold and glory.

15. Motives and Means (cont.)
• Five European powers, led by Portugal and
Spain, engaged in an age of exploration. All
rose to new economic heights.
• Motives for European exploration include
“God, glory, and gold”
– Economic interests – Europeans wanted
to expand wealth and trade and locate
spices and precious metals.
European Voyages of Discovery

16. Motives and Means (cont.)
– Religious zeal – Explorers such as Hernán
Cortés were interested in sharing the
Catholic faith with native peoples.
– There was an increased desire for
grandeur, glory, and the spirit of
adventure.
– Political ambition
European Voyages of Discovery

17. A Race for Riches
Portuguese and Spanish explorers
took the lead in discovering new
lands.

18. A Race for Riches (cont.)
• Portugal took the lead in European
exploration under the leadership of Prince
Henry the Navigator.
• Portuguese ships traveled along the western
coast of Africa, finding gold and other goods.
• Vasco de Gama traveled around the Cape
of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, and
landed in India in 1498.

19. A Race for Riches (cont.)
• The Portuguese captured the important port
city of Melaka on the Malay Peninsula,
which enabled the Portuguese to control the
spice trade that had been dominated by Arab
traders.
• The Portuguese used seamanship, guns,
and treaties to control the spice trade.
However, they did not have the people,
wealth, or desire to expand their empire
in Asia.

20. A Race for Riches (cont.)
• Christopher Columbus was an explorer
who sailed for Spain. Columbus searched for
a western route to Asia and landed at Cuba
and Hispaniola in 1492.
• The Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan
sailed around the tip of South America and
into the Pacific Ocean. Magellan is credited
with being the first person to circumnavigate
the globe.

21. A Race for Riches (cont.)
• In 1494, Portugal and Spain signed the
Treaty of Tordesillas, separating control of
the newly discovered lands and giving Spain
control of almost all of the Americas.
• John Cabot, a Venetian, explored the New
England coastline of the Americas for
England.
• The writings of Amerigo Vespucci, a
Florentine mapmaker, led to the use of the
name “America” for the newly discovered
lands in the western hemisphere.

22. Why did Spain and Portugal sign the
Treaty of Tordesillas?
A. To convert all native peoples
to Catholicism
B. To defend all new lands
from England and France A. A
C. To divide control of B. B
the new lands
C. C
D. To prevent non-Catholic 0% 0% 0% 0%
nations from exploring D. D
A
B
C
D
the new lands

23. The Spanish Empire
The great Aztec and Inca civilizations
succumbed to the Spanish.

24. The Spanish Empire (cont.)
• The Spanish conquistadors established an
overseas empire in the Americas.
• In 1519 Hernán Cortés and his Spanish allies were
welcomed into Tenochtitlán by the Aztec monarch
Montezuma. The Spanish were expelled from the city
one year later.
• When the Spaniards left, smallpox devastated the
Aztec capital. The Spanish, led by Cortés returned
and captured the city, and the Aztec Empire was
destroyed.
• The Spanish under Hernán Cortés conquered
Mexico.

25. The Spanish Empire (cont.)
• In 1530 Francisco Pizarro led an expedition
into the Inca Empire. Like the Aztec, the
Incas were no match for Spanish disease,
guns, and horses.
• Pizarro conquered the Incan Empire and
established a new capital for the Spanish
colony at Lima.
• The Spanish used a system of colonial
administration called the encomienda
system— the right of landowners to use
Native Americans as laborers.

26. The Spanish Empire (cont.)
• Spanish landowners could use Native
Americans for labor in return for protection
and converting them to Christianity.
• Native American political and social
structures were torn apart and replaced by
European systems of religion, language, and
government.
• The exchange of plants, animals, and
disease between Europe and the Americas
is known as the Columbian Exchange.

27. Which of the following was sent from
the Americas to Europe?
A. Wheat
B. Horses
C. Cattle A. A
B. B
D. Potatoes
0%
C.
0%
C
0% 0%
A D. D
B
D
C

28. European Rivals
The Portuguese and Spanish found
new rivals in the Dutch, French, and
English for trading rights and for
new lands.

29. European Rivals (cont.)
• The Dutch formed the East India Company
to compete with the English and Portuguese
for the Indian Ocean trade.
• The Dutch also formed the West India
Company to compete with the Spanish and
Portuguese in the Americas.
• By the early seventeen century, the Dutch
established settlements in North America
such as New Netherland.

31. European Rivals (cont.)
• In the 1600s, the French colonized parts of
present-day Louisiana and regions of
Canada.
• The English began to settle the eastern
seaboard of North America and islands in
the Caribbean Sea.
• In 1664, the English seized the harbor of
New Netherland from the Dutch and
renamed it New York.

33. • The English established colonies or trade
relations in all of the following locations:
– Massachusetts
– New York
– Northwestern India
– Caribbean Islands

35. The BIG Idea
Human Rights European expansion affected Africa
with the dramatic increase of the slave trade.

36. Content Vocabulary
• colony •
• mercantilism
• balance of trade
• subsidies
Academic Vocabulary
• transportation • primary
•

37. People and Places
• King Afonso
• Benin

38. Do you think slavery still exists in the
world today?
A. Yes
B. No
A. A
B. B
0% 0%
A
B

39. Trade, Colonies, and Mercantilism
The slave trade increased as
enslaved Africans were brought to
the Americas.

40. Trade, Colonies, and Mercantilism (cont.)
• The nations of Europe created trading
empires and established colonies in the
Americas and in the East.
• Colonies were an integral part of
mercantilism, a seventeenth century
economic theory based
on gold and a limited amount of wealth in
the world.

41. Trade, Colonies, and Mercantilism (cont.)
• Colonies provided raw materials and
markets for finished goods.
• To bring in more gold, nations tried to have a
favorable balance of trade and export more
goods than they imported.
• To encourage exports, governments granted
subsidies and improved transportation
systems.

42. Trade, Colonies, and Mercantilism (cont.)
• Slavery had existed since ancient times, and
African slaves served as domestic servants
in Southwest Asia.
• The demand for slaves changed dramatically
with the introduction of sugarcane (a crop
introduced to Europe from Southwest Asia).
Labor was needed to work the plantations
where sugarcane was grown.
Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1600s

43. Trade, Colonies, and Mercantilism (cont.)
• Slaves became an important commodity in
the triangular trade that connected Europe,
Africa, and the Americas.
• As many as 10 million African slaves may
have been brought to the Americas between
1500 and the late 1800s.
• Slaves from Africa were obtained by
Europeans from African Slave Merchants.
Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1600s

44. • In the Caribbean islands slaves from Africa were
needed for these reasons:
– Importing and paying Europeans for labor upset the
balance of trade.
– Growing sugarcane was labor intensive.
– The Native American population was small due to
diseases brought from Europe.

45. Trade, Colonies, and Mercantilism (cont.)
• One reason for the high number of exported slaves
was the high mortality rate, especially during the
Middle Passage, the journey across the Atlantic
Ocean.
• Slave owners in the 16th century discouraged slaves
from having offspring because they believed that
buying a new slave was less expensive than raising
a new child.
Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1600s

46. •The slave trade devastated the population of
African communities near the coastal regions.
•Some African rulers, such as King Afonso,
protested but were ignored by
African and European slave traders.
• King Afonso of Congo wrote a letter in 1526 to
the king of Portugal describing the corruption of
the slave trade and how it was depopulating his
country.

47. What caused the demand for slaves
to increase?
A. The Treaty of Tordesillas
B. The need to populate
the Americas
C. The introduction of A. A
sugarcane B. B
D. To maintain a balance of 0%
C.
0%
C0% 0%
trade between Africa D. D
and Europe A
B
D
C

48. Effects of the Slave Trade
The slave trade led to depopulation,
increased warfare, and devastation for
many African states.

49. Effects of the Slave Trade (cont.)
• Effects of the slave trade in Africa:
– depopulated areas
– increased warfare
– loss of the strongest and youngest men
and women
– Deterioration of art and culture

50. Effects of the Slave Trade (cont.)
• Benin was transformed from a brilliant
society into a brutal, war-ravaged region
following the introduction of slavery.
• The use of enslaved Africans was widely
accepted until the Society of Friends began
to condemn it in the 1770s.
• The French abolished slavery in the 1790s;
the English abolished slavery in 1807; and
slavery continued in the United States until
the 1860s.

52. The BIG Idea
Competition Among Countries Portugal and Spain
reaped profits from the natural resources and products
of their Latin American colonies.

54. Content Vocabulary
• peninsulares • mulattoes
• creoles • mita
• mestizos
Academic Vocabulary
• labor • draft

55. People and Places
• Brazil
• Juana Inés de la Cruz

56. Colonial Empires in Latin America
The Portuguese and Spanish built
colonial empires in Latin America and
profited from the resources and trade
of their colonies.

57. Colonial Empires in Latin America (cont.)
• In the 1500s, Portugal controlled Brazil,
while Spain’s colonial possessions included
parts of North America, Central America,
and most of South America.
• The area of Central and South America
became known as Latin America, and a
unique social class system emerged.
Colonial Latin America to 1750

58. Colonial Empires in Latin America (cont.)
• Colonial Latin America Social Order:
– Peninsulares: Spanish and Portuguese
officials born in Europe; they held all
important government positions.
– Creoles: Descendants of Europeans who
were born in Latin America; they controlled
business and land.
– Mestizos: The offspring of European and
Native American intermarriage.

59. Colonial Empires in Latin America (cont.)
– Mulattoes: The offspring of Africans and
Europeans.
– Conquered Native Americans and
enslaved Africans.

60. Colonial Empires in Latin America (cont.)
• Europeans utilized the Native Americans as
labor. They used the encomienda system
and mita to sustain a viable labor force.
• Gold and silver from the colonies offered
immediate wealth to the Europeans.
Products, such as tobacco, sugar, and
animal hides were traded to Europe in return
for finished products.

61. Colonial Empires in Latin America (cont.)
• To control their colonial possessions in the
Americas, Portugal and Spain used
governor-generals, known as viceroys to
develop a bureaucracy and carry out
imperial policies.

62. • Catholic missionaries aided the European
powers in influencing the Native Americans by
bringing them together in villages where they
were taught trades and encouraged to grow
crops.

63. • Catholic missionaries were also instrumental in
converting and maintaining order within the
colonial territories.
• The Catholic Church provided an outlet other
than marriage for women. Many nuns like Juana
Inés de la Cruz, urged convents to educate
women on subjects beyond religion.
– Wrote poetry and prose and urged that women be
educated.

64. • Jesuit missions in the new world were very well
organized and profitable.
– Known as the society of Jesus.
– Group of Catholic missionaries who expanded their
faith across the world.
– Main reason Latin America is primarily Catholic today.

65. How did the Spanish and Portuguese
monarchs control their colonial
possessions?
A. By appointing Native
Americans as local rulers
B. By appointing Europeans A. A
to governor-general positions B. B
C. By maintaining a large army C. C
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D. By paying tribute to the local D. D
A
Native American rulers
B
C
D

67. EARLY EXPLORATION of West
Africa, India, and the Americas
• Motivated by religious zeal, gold,
and glory, Europeans began to
explore distant lands.
• The Portuguese sailed east around
Africa to India.
• Spanish ships sailed west to the
Americas.
• Spanish conquistadors seized lands
ruled by the Aztec and Inca.
• Diseases introduced by Spanish explorers killed much of
the Native American population.
• By the late 1600s, the Dutch, French, and English entered
the rivalry for new lands and trade.

68. AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE of Europe,
Asia, and the Americas
• Before the new exploration, the
primary market for enslaved
Africans had been Southwest Asia.
• The demand for plantation laborers
in the Americas greatly increased
slave trade.
• Enslaved Africans were part of the triangular trade
between Europe, Africa and Asia, and the Americas.
• In Africa, the slave trade led to increased warfare,
depopulation, and the deterioration of society.

69. COLONIAL EMPIRES of Latin America
• The Portuguese and Spanish
profited from their colonial
empires in Latin America.
• Peninsulares were the top
social class, followed by
creoles, mestizos and
mulattoes, and finally enslaved
Africans and Native Americans.
• Catholic missionaries spread across the Americas
to try to Christianize Native Americans.

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82. conquistador
a Spanish conqueror of the Americas

83. encomienda
a system of labor the Spanish used in
the Americas; Spanish landowners
had the right, as granted by Queen
Isabella, to use Native Americans as
laborers

84. Columbian Exchange
the extensive exchange of plants and
animals between the Old and New
Worlds, especially during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

85. overseas
movement or transport over the sea;
land beyond the sea

86. percent
a part of a whole divided into
100 parts

87. colony
a settlement of people living in a new
territory, linked with the parent
country by trade and direct
government control

88. mercantilism
Seventeenth century economic
theory; it held that the prosperity of a
nation depended on a large supply of
gold and silver

89. balance of trade
the difference in value beween what a
nation imports and what it exports
over time

90. subsidy
government payment to encourage or
protect a certain economic activity

91. plantation
a large agricultural estate

92. triangular trade
a pattern of trade that connected
Europe, Africa and Asia, and the
American continents; typically,
manufactured goods from Europe
were sent to Africa, where they were
exchanged for enslaved persons, who
were sent to the Americas, where
they were exchanged for raw
materials that were then sent to
Europe

93. Middle Passage
the journey of enslaved persons from
Africa to the Americas, so called
because it was the middle portion of
the triangular trade route

94. transportation
means of travel from one place to
another

95. primary
most important

96. peninsulare
a person born on the Iberian
Peninsula (Spain & Portugal);
typically, a Spanish or Portuguese
official who resided temporarily in
Latin America for political and
economic gain and then returned to
Europe

97. creole
a person of European descent born in
the New World and living there
permanently

98. mestizo
a person of mixed European and
Native American Indian descent

99. mulatto
a person of mixed African and
European descent

100. mita
a labor system that the Spanish
administrators in Peru used to draft
native people to work in the Spanish
landowners’ silver mines

101. labor
people with all their abilities and
efforts

102. draft
to select for some purpose; to
conscript

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