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Set Sail Chapter 2 section 1 SKILLED VIKING SAILORS The Vikings were the first Europeans to make contact with North America Leif Eriksson the son of Erik the Red set off for Greenland . How did colonial subjects respond?. The answer to both of these questions is shaped by the social and cultural ideologies used to justify the colonial mission.. What is Ideology?. A system of ideas, often a set of principles that form the basis of economic or political policy.. Arrival of Europeans. Europeans were interested in the spice trade. Portuguese were first to reach Southeast Asia in 1511. Dutch set up trading post in 1596.. Dutch pushed out Portuguese and were the main European traders in Southeast Asia. Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change. Introduction. Da Gama reaches India in 16. th. century. Eager to trade for spices, textiles, and other Asian objects. Asians had little interest in European goods . Culture . Clash!. The Aborigines had no idea what to make of the white people. - White people were not part of their ancient stories. - Maybe they were devils or stupid ghosts of their ancestors who could not speak Aboriginal languages. The Early Years of Empire Building. © Student Handouts, Inc. www.studenthandouts.com. The Portuguese. 1510. : Portuguese seize Goa. 1511. : Portuguese conquer Malacca. 1500s. : Portuguese in control of the European-Asian spice trade from outposts and forts. What do you notice is different about this map from the ones on the walls? . Why did explorations happen when they did?. A variety of factors all came together to make the time period (1400-1600) the “age of exploration”. to the Renaissance and the Voyages of Exploration. 2. The Age of Exploration. 1. The . First Europeans to attempt to set up a colony in North America were the Vikings around the year 1000 CE.. 2. L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Scramble for Africa. Setting the Stage. Imperialism. – the seizure of a country or territory by a stronger power (mostly by industrialized European nations) in the 19. th. and 20. th. centuries to take advantage of raw materials and markets there which had the effect of the stronger nation dominating the political, economic, and social life of the weaker nation. E. ssay. Introduction. When you write an academic essay, you are entering a "conversation" that has been going on before you came and will continue after you leave.. Think . of this like an ongoing intellectual party at a big house with many people clustered in circles discussing and arguing. You. M. Wagner. 3 Worlds Meet. Native Americans . Africans. Europeans. Our Focus. Over 1,000 years ago, the Vikings explored the Atlantic Ocean.. The Vikings established at least . one settlement in North . The Age of Imperialism. . . IMPERIALISM. CHAPTER 27. The . Age of Imperialism, 1850–1914 . Western countries colonize large areas of Africa and Asia, leading to political and cultural changes. .. What are some dangers of exploration? . What are some benefits of exploration?. European Exploration. Objectives: Explain the reasons or motivations that drove Europeans to explore the world. - Curiosity of the Renaissance + . Napoleon: Order, Security, Efficiency. French Captain convicted of treason because he was a Jew. Movement for a Jewish Homeland. Bellringer. What is Zionism?. Who was Alfred Dreyfus?. What was the slogan for Otto Von Bismarck? Napoleon?. Disease and the Environment . Amoy Daley and Poppy Male. Dane Kennedy, ‘The Perils of the Midday Sun: Climatic Anxieties in the Colonial Tropics,’ in John M. . MacKenzie. (ed.) Imperialism and the Natural World (Manchester, 1990).