Before Exploration
Why did the pope support Christian Kings taking back the peninsula?
Because Christians were being persecuted
What were people in Europe willing to pay high prices for?
Sugar
What were the three reasons people wanted to explore?
1. Get rich
2. Convert people to Christianity
3. Become a large or powerful empire
What is a cash crop?
A crop people grow to sell and make money.
What Empire shutdown a trade with China?
The Ottoman Empire
What were the people called that funded people to explore?
Patrons
What did Europeans not like at first but grew to like because they had a lot of calories?
Potatoes
Who funded explorers on their missions?
Kings and Queens
What is a plantation?
Large Farms
Why did the call this period the "Age of Exploration?"
Europeans were finding new ways to reach East Asia
What did Patrons usually pay for?
Ships, sailors, and tools
What food did europeans use to feed animals?
Corn
True or False: When explorers sailed they the places they went were already discovered.
False: Most places were very unknown and had not been touched by humans
How did Native peoples die when working the planations?
They died from Europeans diseases.
What does the word colonization mean?
Act of taking over an area of land for their own.
What were the names of the King and the Queen that sent Christopher Columbus on his Exploration?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
What was considered a luxury item in Europe?
Sugar
True or False: Kings and Queens wanted explorers to bring back gold and other riches.
True
When Native people died, how did they get people to farm the plantations?
They enslaved people from Africa to work. They had no pay or freedom.
After Europeans traveled to the Americans, Indigenous people started dying, why?
They were introduced to new diseases that they were not immune to.
When Christopher Columbus left what country was he hoping to reach?
India
What did Europeans also like form American animals?
Fur
When exploring they were able to expand trading networks which led to what?
Competitions between countries to become large and powerful.
Sugarcane needs what type of environment to grow?
A warm environment.
Name 3 things items europeans found because of exploration.
Can include: sugar, lemons, tobacco, chocolate, potatoes, and turkey.