Columbus
When did Columbus land in the Americas?
October 12th, 1492
What were the economic motivations for exploring?
Spices silk and new trade routes to Asia
What were the effects on the native Americans form exploring
Governments dismantled, forced religious conversion, enslavement, genocide
How did exploration of the Americas lead to the atlantic slave trade?
economic exploitation in the americas lead to the demand for cheap forced labor.
What 2 countries split the new world between themselves
Spain and Portugal
Why did Columbus originally go on his voyage?
To find a new trade route to Asia
What were the sociopolitical motivations for exploring?
Gold, God, Glory
What 2 explorers started conquests of Native Americans?
Pizzaro-conquest of the Incas
Cortes-Conquest of the Aztecs
What was the columbian exchange?
Transfer of people, plants, animals, diseases, between the Americas, Europe and Asia
Explain one of the sociopolitical motivations for exploring?
gold-nations were cometing fo rthe most gold
God-catholic monarchs wanted to spread chrisitianity to new lands
Glory- European nations were competing for the most territory