2. SPAIN
Spain was a leader in discovery
and shipping in the 16 and
1700’s
Spain is surrounded for water
and has an abundance off trees
that make it easier to build
strong long lasting ships
Spain was able to conquer and
settle Mexico and works it way
up into modern day America
3. Struggle and Survival Trade
The Spanish inquisition in “The Golden Age of
Mexico hurt the original Spain” with Charles
inhabitants immensely ineheriting large
In Struggle and Survival portions of land gave
Catalina la Garay the country even more
confessed to accustaions opportunity for trade
after being tortured and
received 200 lashings Spain held huge a
ammount of gold and
sliver during this time
4. Portugal
The First global empire Portuguese colonies
in history were being attacked
Between 1580 and by three rival
1640 Portugal was the European powers
little brother to Spain hostile to Spain
5. Portugal cont . . .
Big losses to the Dutch in The Portuguese lost
Portuguese India and many trade islands
Southeast Asia during the and routes in the war
17th century brought an
with the dutch
end to the Portuguese
trade monopoly in the
Indian Ocean.
6. English Empire
The Caribbean originally England’s power in
provided England's most Europe made them
important and lucrative
colonies
able to fund trips back
England’s first permanent
and forth from their
settelment in the new land land to the Americas
was Jamestown
7. English empire cont. . .
King Charles II
granted many charters
to the new land that
were valuable in
creating trade routes
8. The French first came to the During the 17th and 18th
New World as explorers, centuries France conquered
seeking a route to the and controlled many
Pacific ocean and wealth Carribean Islands
The French tried to create They also sided with the
posts and colonies in the U.S. against Great Britain
new land
9. Dutch
In 1602 the Dutch After some early trading
founded the Dutch East expeditions, the first Dutch
settlement in the Americas
India Company was founded in 1615 which
The mission was to was Fort Nassau
revive exploration and 1621 they found the Dutch
find passages for west Indies trade company
trade
10. Dutch cont. . .
The English attacked
and conquered many
of the Dutch
established colonies
