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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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