Age+of+Exploration


 * 1. Why I should care?**
 * this was how the new world was discovered and how people eventually started coming over to the Americas.
 * this is how people learned what the world truly looked like, and the spacings of all the continents


 * 2. Key terms:**
 * **subsidies**- payments that the governments used to stimulate industries and trade
 * **balance of trade**- the difference in value between what a nation imports and what is exports over time. When the balance is favorable, the goods exported is greater value than those imported.
 * **triangular trade**- Europe, American continents, and Africa carried manufactured goods such as guns, cloth, and slaves, tobacco, molasses, and sugar.
 * **creoles**-descendants of European born in Latin America. They controlled land and business.
 * **Plantations**-large agricultural estates established in the 1500s along the coast of Brazil and on the Caribbean islands to grow sugarcane.

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 * 3. Important topics:**
 * -**Many new inventions helped with the age of exploration such as:
 * The Chinese Compass
 * **Cuba-** an island of Hispaniola
 * **Melaka-**a thriving spice trade port that would destroy Arab and take over the control of the spice trade

Informative video about the age of exploration...Age of Exploration


 * 4. Key actors:**
 * **Christopher Columbus -** sailed west in search of India but ended up in the Bahamas
 * **Leif Ericsson -** sailed west and landed in modern day Newfoundland, off the coast of Canada
 * **Marco Polo -** traveled for 3 years by land and sea towards China
 * **Hernan Cortes** - the Spanish conqueror of Mexico
 * **Vasco da Gama -** went around the cape and cut across the Indian Ocean to the coast of India
 * **Ferdinand Magellan -** Spanish explorer, persuaded the king of Spain to finance his voyage to Asia
 * **John Cabot -** explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England
 * Marco Polo - explored china and Asia, 1254-1324
 * **[|Marco Polo]**


 * 5. Timeline:**
 * **1000 AD -** Leif Ericsson lands in Newfoundland
 * **1270 AD -** Marco Polo journeys to China
 * **1492 AD -** Christopher Columbus sails west towards India, lands in Bahamas
 * **1498 AD -** Vasco de Gama finds an easier way to India by water[[image:http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/175/17549.png width="329" height="233" align="right" caption="Route of Vasco de Gama"]]
 * **1519 AD -** Magellan started the first voyage to circumnavigate the world