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Age of exploration, locations Cape of Good Hope Hispaniola Tenochtitlan/Mexico City Potosi Brazil Quebec Jamestown Angola Beijing Guangzhou Edo/Tokyo Nagasaki

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Age of exploration, locations Cape of Good Hope Hispaniola Tenochtitlan/Mexico City Potosi Brazil Quebec Jamestown Angola Beijing Guangzhou Edo/Tokyo Nagasaki

by Chase Campbell
1 Brazil 2 Cape of Good Hope 3 Hispaniola 4 Tenochtitlan 5 Potosi 6 Quebec 7 Jamestown 8 Angola 9 Beijing 10 Guangzhou 11 Edo/Tokyo 12 Nagasaki

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-Colonized by Portugal after 1500 (Pedro Álvares Cabral). -Major producer of sugarcane, later coffee — reliant on enslaved African labor. -Only Portuguese-speaking colony in South America.

-Strategic stop for ships traveling between Europe and Asia during the Age of Exploration. -First rounded by Bartolomeu Dias (1488); later used by Vasco da Gama en route to India. -Dutch East India Company established a resupply station at Cape Town in 1652.

Site of Columbus’s first permanent European colony (1493). Early center of Spanish colonization and the encomienda system. Native Taíno population decimated by disease and forced labor. Modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island.

-Capital of the Aztec Empire, built on Lake Texcoco. -Conquered by Hernán Cortés in 1521; rebuilt as Mexico City, capital of New Spain. -Example of advanced Mesoamerican engineering (chinampas, causeways, temples).

One of the richest silver mining centers in the Spanish Empire (founded 1545). Supplied much of Europe and Asia with silver, fueling global trade. Massive Indigenous labor under the mita system.

Founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 as the center of New France. Important fur trading hub and French cultural stronghold in North America. Site of French and British rivalry during colonial wars.

-Founded in 1607; first permanent English settlement in North America. -Early struggles with starvation; tobacco later made it profitable. -Example of English colonization and beginnings of representative government (House of Burgesses).

-Portuguese colony and major source of enslaved Africans sent to Brazil. -Key part of the Atlantic slave trade network. -Example of early European colonization in sub-Saharan Africa.

-Capital of the Ming and Qing dynasties. -Center of imperial bureaucracy and trade regulation. -Home of the Forbidden City and key to interactions with European merchants.

-Only Chinese port open to foreign trade under the Canton System (before Opium Wars). -Hub for European merchants, especially the British. -Important in the early global silver and tea trade.

-Capital during the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603–1868). -Center of isolationist (sakoku) Japan — limited foreign contact. -Became Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration (1868), symbolizing modernization.

-One of the few Japanese ports open to limited European (mainly Dutch) trade during isolation. -Major missionary site before Christianity was banned. -Example of selective contact with the outside world in Tokugawa Japan.

 
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