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Portuguese first to arrive in India End of 16 th century -> Dutch and British arrive in India 17 th century the British begin est commercial power in India French enter India and try to compete with the British in India Sir Robert Clive = empire builder = head of the British East India Company = organizer of British victory in India Seven Years War 1756-1763 = British drive the French out of India CLIVE OF INDIA

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Portuguese first to reach China since Marco Polo China in 18 th cent. was declining -> Euro was on the rise -> Euros wanted more trade First trade was between Russ. And China English dominate trade with Asia in 18 th cent. -> China tried to restrict trade access Chinese resisted incr. Brit. trade

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Portug first est contact with Japan Francis Xavier -> Jesuit missionary in Japan Euro sent goods and god to Japan -> Japanese rulers resist -> Jesuits expelled -> trading shut down -> only Dutch trading post at Nagasaki kept open

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Portugal -> Brazil Spain -> S. America and Mexico 17 th cent -> Dutch, French, English begin to move into the Americas

Slide 5

The West Indies = French and British 1. plantation economies 2. Sugarcane -> $ 3. African slavery

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Dutch -> est first colony in N. Am -> New Netherlands = Hudson River Valley -> now N. York English -> Jamestown in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England -> later seize New Netherlands = the 13 colonies Brit colonies -> mercantilism = colonies should benefit mother country 1. Provide raw materials 2. Buy manufactured goods from England

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Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain French Canada 1663 -> furs, fish, timber Underpopulated -> not enough Frenchies went to the Americas The Seven Years War 1763 = French lose colonies in N. Am to the Brits