How did European expansion change the world? TOPIC 2: EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND CONQUEST DURING THE 15...

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How did European expansion change the world?

TOPIC 2: EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND CONQUEST DURING THE

15TH–18TH CENTURIES

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A world map from 1570 by the Flemish cartographer, Abraham Ortelius

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A diagram of saffron in John Gerard’s 1633 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

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A wheellock pistol from 1570

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John Harrison’s marine chronometer

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A 1500 map reflecting the discoveries recorded by Amerigo Vespucci

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A 1506 map showing the discoveries of Columbus

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Gerardus Mercator’s world-map projection of 1569

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An engraving of a Spanish galleon from the 1500s or the 1600s

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The four voyages of Columbus

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa claims the South Sea: a 19th-century engraving

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A modern mural called Discussions between Taxcaltecans and Hernan Cortés, showing Doña Marina in the centre

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An engraving of Tenochtitlan showing how the Aztec city was literally built on a lake for protection. All buildings, no matter how large, were built on rafts, as were the gardens.

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The Temple of the Sun, where the Aztecs practised human sacrifice

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A 1533 portrait of Atahualpa drawn by one of Pizarro's followers

Francisco Pizarro

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A gold Inca statuette of a llama

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A weaver from the Inca Empire

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Early Spanish colonisation in the Americas

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Hispaniola

Isthmus ofPanama

Tlaxcala

Santa Maria

La Florida

Biru (Tumbes, Cajamarca & Cuzco)

Tenochtitlan

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The Mexican hacienda Jaral de Berrios

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Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, in 1572

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Portuguese settlements in Africa

Principe

Sao Tome

Cape Blanco

Sierra Leone Elmina

Zanzibar

Kilwa

Mombasa

Mozambique Island

Quilimane

Sena TeteZambezi River

Delagoa Bay

Sofala

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The Island of Principe, 1725

Santo António Church on Mozambique Island, part of the settlement that sprang up there during Portuguese colonisation

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The Triangular Slave Trade

Africa

America

Europe

South America

North America

Caribbean Islands

Slaves

Agricultural produce

Manufactured goods

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This is an 1830 drawing of how slaves were transported across the Atlantic to Brazil, but

conditions would have been similar during the slave-trading of the 15th to 18th centuries.

Part of the slavery memorial in Zanzibar

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St George’s Fort (on the left) and the new Dutch fort built on St James’s Hill (on the right) in Elmina

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A merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company

Jan van Riebeeck

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The Castle of Good Hope circa 1680

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Groot Constantia was a wine estate established in the Cape in 1685. Beneath its luxurious manor house are the old slave cells.

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A Khoi settlement in Table Bay, as depicted in an engraving in Abraham Bogaert's Historische Reizen, 1711.

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A drawing by a Tlaxcalan artist in the 1500s

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The trade zone of the Dutch East India Company between the Cape of Good Hope and Japan, 1655

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