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How and Why did the Portugese begin exploration in Africa?

They don't try to colonize South or Soutrheast Asia, they just extablish trading posts.

What preporations do you need to set up a post in Asia?

Objectives summarize how Portugal buil a trading empire in south and southeast Asia. Analyze the riase of the Dutch and Spanish dominatce in the region. Understnad how the decline of Mughal India afffected European traders in the region.

Strategic- characterized by, or of the nature of strategy

The dutch challenged the domination of Asian trade. When netherlands got independence they began to compete for overseas power The dutch opened trade with china. The dutch men married many asian women just to keep dutch blood in their country. Spain took over the philipines and tried to convert them to christianity The mughal empire was attacked by the french and english as they weakened.

Objectives: Describe european contacts with Ming China Understand the Manchu conquest and its impact on european trade. analyze the factors that led Korea to isolate itself from nations

Kangxi's grandson Peace and Prosperity confucias say population grow Jesuits became important sources of information for Europeans who knew little about China. The Manchus won support of Chinese scholars because they adopted a Confusion system of Government. Kangxi extended Chinese power into central Asia. Qianlong expanded borders o rule the largest area in the nation's history. Due to potatoes and corn being brought across by Europeans China's agricultural sector thrived creating surplus and increasing trade. This cause a huge surge in population. The Chinese continued to control foreign trade within their country but soon China realized that ignoring Westerners and their technology would have consequences. Korea adopted a policy of isolation, stopping all contact with foreigners expect for a few Japanese and Chinese.At first first the Japanese welcomed the Portuguese foreigners, soon after hearing the Philippines had been conquered by the Spanish the Japanese became hostile to the Europeans kicking them out and killing many of their own christian citizens. The Japanese outlawed building big ships so Japanese foreign trade ended. Japan remained Isolated but internally they flourished.

Conquest in the Americas When columbus was arrived in the west indeis they encountered tainos Columbus was disrespectful towards them and killed many of them. The spanish outgunned the the native americans 90% of native americans people died of disease Hernan cortes is a spanish explorer. he went to the aztec capital tenochtitlan Cortes found tribes that despised the aztecs and made allainces with them to attack Aztec MocteZuma was an emperor of the aztecs the look of tenochtitlan was amazing and beautiful The spanish wanted the gold and wanted to convert the aztecs to christianity They decided to imprison moctezuma until he signed over the cities news of the conquest reached spain and many others became jealous Confilclt arose in tenochtitlan between the aztecs and the spanish with the spanish being driven out. Pizzaro investigated the peruvian incas he was not a christina and captured the Atahualpa and killed many incas The sanish seizez huge amounts of gold and valuable goods.

Objectives: Analyze the results of the first encounters between the spanish and native americans. explain how cortes and pizzaro gained control of the aztec and incan empires. understand th shor term and long term effects of the spanish on the peoples of the americas

1. What were some of the results of the encounters between the Spanish and Native Americans? The spanish first conquered the native americans and tortured them or put them in captivity. Then at last, the spanish were driven out by the native americans. 2. How did cortes and pizzaro gain control of the aztec and incan empires? They both were welcomed in at first and tried to take the gold and treasures. They then sided with other smaller tribes to attack the incans or aztec all at once. This way, they had their gold, and the tribes accomplished destroying one of their enemies.

Please complete the following evaluation of the Great Person visiting the classroom today:

1) Report Card for Queen Elizabeth I (1) || Below Average  (2) || Average  (3) || Above Average  (4) || Outstanding  (5) ||
 * Anji || Poor
 * Charisma ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Intelligence ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Determination ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Ability to Problem-Solve ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Decision-Making Ability ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Describe the person's leadership style ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Significance to others ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Evidence of Achievements ||  ||   ||   ||   || 5 ||
 * Relevance to Contemporary History ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 35/ 45 ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 35/ 45 ||

Comments (write a paragraph): She makes a compelling argument and speaks in an english form. She has a positive attitude and her acting was pretty ok.

Chante's Presentation The Atlantic Slave trade In the 1500's slaves formed an international trade network The triangular trade was a three legged slave trade Europeans brought goods to africa to trade them for slaves A lot of profit was made from the triangular trade. European cities become much more wealthy. The middle passage was were they were bound in chains and tortured Slaves diedfrom a small intestine disease known as disentry African states were torn apart. Mid 1800's overseas slave trade

Charles the Fifth inherits two crowns he was th heir to the Sprawling Hapsburg empire Charles fought the muslims ottoman empire Ottoman occupied hungary Charles Abdicated the hapsburg empire to his brother Ferdinand and gave the spanish empire to Phillip II hilli[ II was very hardworking and devoted his time to gorvernment work Phillip fought rebels in the netheralnds The spanish sailed 130 ships with 20,000 men and 2400 peices of artillery Spanish ships met english ships in the Channel. Oversea wars drained the wealth from Spain.

Phillip II || Poor (1) || Below Average (2) || Average (3) || Above Average (4) || Outstanding (5) || The tudors and parliament The tudor monarchy valued good reputation james stuart was elizabeth;s heir to the throne a revolution started that involved the stuart and parliament James I began conflisct with parliament arguing a divine right Parliament revolted against charles Paliament was known as THE LONG PARLIAMENT the civil was lasted from 1642-1651, and "posed as a major challenge" when parliament won, king charles was killed After charles was killed, the monarchy was abolished and the church of england was established charles the second was the heir and his people attacked england. The puritans lost their grip on england when cromwell died. charles was welcomed back to england and was popular the bill of rights made sure parliament had power over the monarcy Robert walpole was britians first prime minister
 * Manisha
 * Charisma ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Intelligence ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Determination ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Ability to Problem-Solve ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Decision-Making Ability ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Describe the person's leadership style ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Significance to others ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Evidence of Achievements ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Relevance to Contemporary History ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 32/ 45 ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 32/ 45 ||

Thirty years war voltaire distinguished that the holy roman empure was neither holy, roman or even an empire anymore The noorth was catholic and the south was catholic the brutal war started in bohemia' Ferdinand tried to roll back the reformation by force He had support from spain, poland and catholic states. so many powers were involved in the conflict, the treties aspired both to bring about a general european peace. In addition the netherlands and the swiss federation won recognitions as indipendent states Hapsburg still wanted to create a strong united state even after being weakened by war. People had their own languages, laws, political assemblied and customs the hapsburgs did exert some control over their diverse people they put down revolts in bohemia and hungary this sparked the eight year war of the austrian succession Maria theresa set off the hungary to appeal for military help from her hungarian subjects. in 1750 the great european powers were france, austria, prussia, britain and russia

Katherine the Great || Poor (1) || Below Average (2) || Average (3) || Above Average (4) || Outstanding (5) ||
 * Summer
 * Charisma ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Intelligence ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Determination ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Ability to Problem-Solve ||  || 2 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Decision-Making Ability ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Describe the person's leadership style ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Significance to others ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Evidence of Achievements ||  ||   ||   ||   || 5 ||
 * Relevance to Contemporary History ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 32/ 45 ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 32/ 45 ||

Peter the great wantd to expand russian power. he brought the russian institutionsunder his control and forced boyrds and nobles to serve the state in military or civilian positions. He forced people o fix the roads and canals He inported western techonology and improved education. he begnn to encourage mercantilist policies, such as supporting exports He had a world class navy the ottoman empire was defeated so he could get the black sea, but lost the russian army had about five times the amount of people he won land from sweden and built st petersburg russian traders crossd to the east to expand russia russia then ruled north china when peter died russian traders built outposts in alaska and north china when peter died, most of his rulings and policies died also catherine the great was a german princess and wed the throne catherine proved to be an efficient and energetic empress she reorganized the provincial government catherine was an absolute monarch she put burdens on peasents to avoid fighting king frederick and emperor joseph, catherine signed a treaty to split up poland

in the 1500's there was a scientific revolution and it introduced reason and scienc as the basis of knoledge This period made poeple think with more depth Thomas hobbes and john locke had important to this period Hobes argued that people are brutish by nature lock felt that people could thro over an unfair government. philosopes beleived that the use of reason could lead to reforms in government law and society with his biting wit, Voltaire exposed abuses of power The social contract was suggested by Rousseau. Adam smith focused on using natural laws for economi free dom Montasque said that if you seperated the divisions of social law, it was better for the public

Voltaire || Poor (1) || Below Average (2) || Average (3) || Above Average (4) || Outstanding (5) || Voltaire was an important leader in writing and art and his stories are timeless.
 * Luca
 * Charisma ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Intelligence ||  ||   || 3 || 4 ||   ||
 * Determination ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Ability to Problem-Solve ||  ||   ||   ||   || 5 ||
 * Decision-Making Ability ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Describe the person's leadership style ||  || 2 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Significance to others ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Evidence of Achievements ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Relevance to Contemporary History ||  ||   ||   ||   || 5 ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 37/ 45 ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 37/ 45 ||

Birth of the American Republic England was located in a position where they could control trade Britain was generally on the winning side. The british monopolized slave trade in spanish america ireland had come under british control A string of prosperous colonies stretched along the eastern coast of north america they were a part of britains growing power social distinctions wee more blurred than in europe although wealty landowners and mercahnts dominated government and society king george III thought that colonists should help pay for these wars. A serioes of violent clashes intensified the colonists anger. british soldiers in boston opened fire on a crown that was pelting them with stones and snowballs. The ongoing tension between the colonists and the british exploded into war. the second continental congress took a momentous sep voting to declare independence from britain. The british has a large number of trained soldiers, a huge fleet of ships when the americans triumphed over the british at the battle of saratoga, this victory pursuaded france to join the americans fight against britain. the war effort from britain crumbled the articles of confederations was the first constitution in that nation

Thomas Jefferson || Poor (1) || Below Average (2) || Average (3) || Above Average (4) || Outstanding (5) ||
 * Taylor Parnell
 * Charisma ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Intelligence ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Determination ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Ability to Problem-Solve ||  ||   ||   ||   || 5 ||
 * Decision-Making Ability ||  ||   ||   ||   || 5 ||
 * Describe the person's leadership style ||  || 2 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Significance to others ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Evidence of Achievements ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Relevance to Contemporary History ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 33/ 45 ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 33/ 45 ||

Thomas Jefferson was a very important leader and speaker in history. e was also a great president

John Locke || Poor (1) || Below Average (2) || Average (3) || Above Average (4) || Outstanding (5) || He was a great thinker and his views on the social contract were very helpful when promoting it. He was also and eloquent speaker.
 * Gavin Kersell
 * Charisma ||  ||   || 3 ||   ||   ||
 * Intelligence ||  ||   ||   ||   || 5 ||
 * Determination ||  ||   ||   ||   || 5 ||
 * Ability to Problem-Solve ||  || 2 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Decision-Making Ability ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Describe the person's leadership style ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Significance to others ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Evidence of Achievements ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Relevance to Contemporary History ||  ||   ||   || 4 ||   ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 35/ 45 ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 35/ 45 ||

The eve of revolution there were 3 classes the clergy, the nobles and the rest of the population the church was a big part of ruleb back them nobles lived a good life and there were priests who lived humbly Louis XIV took away military power the last class consisted of bankers, merchants, manufacturers, lawyers doctors and peasants most people were unemployed the rise of prices made poor people even poorer The seven years war had a great affect on the treasury Louis XIV was weak and indecisive and required other to make decisions for him delegates were elected from the third class july 14th, 1789 paris took hold of the national assembly meetings this day is celebrated as the independence day

Napolean || Poor (1) || Below Average (2) || Average (3) || Above Average (4) || Outstanding (5) ||
 * Scott Craig
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 * Intelligence ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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 * Decision-Making Ability ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Describe the person's leadership style ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Significance to others ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Evidence of Achievements ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Relevance to Contemporary History ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 35/ 45 ||
 * Overall Impact on History ||  ||   ||   || Score: || 35/ 45 ||