Exploration & Colonialism

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Exploration & Colonialism By: Jasmine Banks Victoria Peele Christopher Norton


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Table of Contents — What is Exploration? (pg. 4) — Cause of Exploration (pgs. 5-6) — Effect of Exploration (pgs. 7-8) — What is Colonialism? (pg. 10) — Cause of Colonialism (pgs. 11-12) — Effect of Colonialism (pgs. 13-14) — What’ s in Store For You! (pg. 15) — Works Cited (pg. 16)

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Exploration

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What is Exploration? — Exploration is an act or instance

of exploring or investigating; examination. — It can also be the investigation of unknown regions.

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Cause of Exploration — They had better technology

(caravels and maps). — Crusading mentality. — Profits of luxury and trade with the spice islands (Trading networks: African coast, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia).

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Cause of Exploration — Europeans left their continent was to

escape religious persecution. There were also the adventurers who were true explorers, and dedicated their lives to exploring the new world (the Americas), discovering indigent peoples, mapping the geography they discovered, and naming the new places, animals, and plant life they never had seen before. Another motivation for the leaders of the countries that financed expeditions was to accumulate more wealth and territory.

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Effect of Exploration — The two most famous legends are:

St. Brendan’ s 6th century voyage from Ireland and the fable that a Welsh Prince, Madoc, reached America in the 12th century. — Portuguese voyagers sailed to the Newfoundland in the 1470s. — The Norse exploration of North America, though by far the earliest for which we have definite proof, left no permanent legacy.

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Effect of Exploration — John Cabot began the European

exploitation and settlement of what was to Europeans, a new found land. — The Norse arrived from Greenland about 1000 A.D. — By the end of the 17th century, French missionaries followed in the path of the explorers to Arkansas.

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Colonialism

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What is Colonialism? — Colonialism is the control or

governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people. — It can also be the system or policy by which a nation maintains or advocates such control or influence.

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Cause of Colonialism — The main cause was that it caused

World War 1. — The spark of the war was the assassination of the Austrian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand by members of the Serbian terrorist group, “The Black Hand” .

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Cause of Colonialism — They thought their colonies

could provide markets to which the conquering country could sell their manufactured goods. — Also thought it would offer up plentiful natural resources (think gems, coal, gas, etc).

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Effect of Colonialism — Colonialism was a factor leading to

the First World War, but in many ways, it actually made war less likely (doesn’ t occur that much). — Manufacturing classes were against war as it would disrupt trade.

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Effect of Colonialism — The people were too poor to be able

to buy any exports and resources were thin on the ground. — Colonies were something to show off to the neighbors, the more you had the better you looked; it made their colony look bad for them since they were too poor.

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What’s in Store For You! While the Europeans were on their ships going on their adventures, they had to have something to eat. Well, you will get to experience the taste of the food they ate while traveling. On their expedition, they ate sea biscuits and stew. They drank water with it as well. The sailors would take their sea biscuits and dip them into the stew.

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Works Cited http://sparkleandscandal.blogspot.com/2006/0 4/ww1-causes-colonialism.html — http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/early_e x.html — http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/default. html — http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyc lopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2916 —

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