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Explore the World The Roman empire From about the 5 th century B C Until the late 400s A D the Roman Empire ruled much of Europe the Mediterranean Sea North Africa and the Middle East Rome at the Height of its Power. What do industrialized nations need to expand their economies?. Industrialized nations need natural . r. esources and markets to expand their economies.. Where did European nations compete for colonies in the 19. 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. 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. . 1600-1660. The . Americas- What now?. We’ve learned about the native cultures in the Americas and what happened in the beginning of contact with the Europeans, but what now?!?.  Europeans began to colonize the territory in the Americas. “God, Glory, and Gold”. Europeans had . (no) . neither. . the. interest . nor the . ability to explore foreign lands.. That changed by the early 1400s.. The desire to . get rich . + . spread Christianity. The Arrival of Europeans . The arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean in 1492 had a tremendous impact on the future of that region. The passage below describes that arrival. It is taken from an abridgement of Columbus’ personal journal made by . st. Century. When the first Europeans arrived in Canada in the 1500's they found the land populated by about 400,000 to 500,000 Aboriginal peoples.. Aboriginal myths suggest the first nations originated here, with the help of a spirit.. 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. Ch. 1: I can. . .. describe how trade and political centralization transformed West Africa before the advent of the Atlantic Slave Trade. .. describe . the role the Columbian Exchange played in the formation of the Atlantic world. Key Concept 1. Before the arrival of the Europeans, native populations in North America developed a wide variety of social, political and economic structures based in part on interactions with the environment and each other.