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6. Early Modern Europe 6.1. Portugal: Prince Henry & Marco Polo 6.2. Columbus and the New World 6.3. Exploring, Settling, Exploiting the New World 6.4. Cortes & Pizarro vs. de Las Casas 6.5. Imperialism, Atlantic Trade &

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  • 6. Early Modern Europe
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6.1. Portugal: Prince Henry & Marco Polo 6.2. Columbus and the New World 6.3. Exploring, Settling, Exploiting the New World

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6.4. Cortes & Pizarro

  • vs. de Las Casas

6.5. Imperialism, Atlantic Trade & Slavery 6.6. 30 Years’ War, 1618–48, Winners & Losers

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6.7. England: 1603– 1648 6.8. Rise of Absolutism in France & Russia to 1648 6.9. Intellectual Developments: Science to 1648

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6.1. Portugal: Prince Henry & Marco Polo

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  • The Silk Road,

Hanseatic League

  • Marco Polo, 1270s
  • Wealth, Exotic Asian

Spices & Products

  • Break Muslim Trade
  • Seek Christians?
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  • Prince Henry the

Navigator, (1394– 1460)

  • Discovered Islands
  • African Coastline
  • Christianity, Trade,

Exploration, Slaves

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6.2. Columbus & the New World

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  • Portuguese Lead!
  • Sailing Savvy, Wind

and Water Cycles

  • Go West, Get East
  • Contract Outlined,

State Economics

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6.3. Exploring, Settling, Exploiting the New World

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  • Exported: Maize,

Potatoes, Tobacco, Cocoa, Tomatoes

  • Tordesillas 1494
  • On the Margins:

England, France, The Dutch, Wars

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6.4. Cortes & Pizarro vs. de Las Casas

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  • The Black Legend
  • Cortes: Aztecs of

Mexico

  • Pizarro: Incans of

the Andes

  • Gold/Silver Debts,

Inflation, Ideas

  • Friar de Las Casas:

Humanitarianism

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6.5. Imperialism, Atlantic Trade & Slavery

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  • Exploitation of the

New World: Labor!

  • Europeans, Local

Indigenous Died

  • Tropical Plantations
  • African Slaves
  • Triangular Trade
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6.6. 30 Years’ War, 1618–1648: Winners & Losers

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  • Peace of Augsburg

1555 Unsettled HRE

  • Dynasties, Division
  • Protestant War
  • Losers: Spain, HRE
  • Winners: France,

Sweden, Prussia

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6.7. England: 1603–1648

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  • King James I vs.

Parliament

  • Divine Right Theory
  • Puritanism
  • King Charles I, No

Parliament 1629–40

  • Civil War by 1642
  • Charles I Executed,

Era of Cromwell

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6.8. Rise of Absolutism in France & Russia to 1648

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  • Cardinal Richelieu to

1642: Taxes, War

  • Intendant System
  • Weakened Nobility
  • Politician: Sweden,

HRE, Spain Juggled

  • Mercantilism Ideas
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  • Rise of Russia: Tsar

Ivan IV to 1598

  • Time of Troubles
  • Expulsion of Poles,

Romanov Tsar 1613

  • Russian Expansion

into Siberia, Baltic

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6.9. Intellectual Developments: Science to 1648

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  • Traditional Geo-

centric Theory

  • Copernicus: Helio-
  • Galileo: Telescope
  • Newton: Law of

Gravitation 1687

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