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AP 23.500 Illustrative Example – Isolationist State: Tokugawa Ieyasu (Japan)
Illustrative Example (p 83) – Asian state that adopted restrictive or isolationist trade policies.
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AP 23.498 Pirate – Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by western shipping.
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AP 23.496 Golden Age of Piracy (1650–1730)
A pirate is a robber who travels by water. Though most pirates targeted ships, some also launched attacks on coastal towns. Throughout history, there have been people willing to rob others transporting goods on the water. Thousands of pirates were active from 1650–1730.
“Sea Dogs” = pirates authorized by Queen Elizabeth I
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AP 23.484 European – Baroque Music and Dance (1600 to 1750)
Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed after the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era.
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AP 23.479 English – The Elizabethan Era (Society)
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history.
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AP 23.477 Mankind Story (Treasure 8)
Silver flows out of the mines of the Americas, helping spur new empires and global links. The growth of trade doesn’t just include products, it includes people. The brutal trans-Atlantic slave trade becomes an enormous human trafficking system, leading to enslavement of tens of millions of Africans. Pilgrims, searching for religious freedom, travel to the New World. Mankind is becoming increasingly connected, with transformative consequences.
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AP 23.476 Columbian Exchange – Chickens (Live stock)
What is the big deal?
Illustrative Example (p 82) – Domesticated Animals
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AP 23.475 Columbian Exchange – Pigs (Live stock)
What is the big deal?
Illustrative Example (p 82) – Domesticated Animals
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AP 23.474 Columbian Exchange – Horses (Live stock)
What is the big deal?
Illustrative Example (p 82) – Domesticated Animals
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AP 23.459 Holland – the Dutch Empire (and vs Portugal)
A map of the Dutch colonial empire.
Light green – territories administered by or originating from territories administered by the Dutch East India Company;
Dark green – the Dutch West India Company
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AP 23.454 Khan Review – Old and New Worlds Collide
Motivation for European conquest of the New World
– Historians generally recognize three motives for European exploration and colonization in the New World: God, Gold, and Glory.
– Religious motivations can be traced all the way back to the Crusades, the series of religious wars between the 11th and 15th centuries during which European Christians sought to claim Jerusalem as an exclusively Christian space.
– Europeans also searched for optimal trade routes to lucrative Asian markets and hoped to gain global recognition for their country.
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AP 23.443 Spanish Explorer and Conquistador – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
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