Explorers
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Explorer who led four voyages across the Atlantic
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Global exchange of people, goods, ideas, and diseases through trade and conquest. Took place between the Old World and New World.
What initiated the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Indigenous people of the Americas kept dying from European diseases (smallpox).
What was the first British settlement in the Americas?
Spanish explorer who found modern-day Mexico and was able to conquer the Aztecs because they thought he was a god.
Hernando Cortez
What did Columbus' voyages across the Atlantic lead to?
An exchange of people, foods, and germs between Europe and the Americas
What was the Triangle Trade?
trade in the 18th and 19th centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities which were in turn shipped back to Britain.
Approximately how many enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas?
10-12 million
Why was Plymouth founded by the Pilgrims?
So that the Pilgrims could practice religious freedom.
Who was the Incan king killed by Pizarro's men?
Atahualpa
What are the three G's for explorers?
God, Glory, Gold
Describe one impact of the Columbian Exchange.
Spread of diseases, Sharing of crops, sharing domesticated animals, ect.
What was the Middle Passage?
The route of slave ships from across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What country established the first settlement in Canada?
France
What title was given to Spanish conquerors in the Americas?
conquistador
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
Portuguese royalty that was interested in overseas exploration and opened a school to train sea captains.
How did the Age of Exploration affect indigenous populations?
They lost their land, their gold, and many people from death.
What were the two continents that enslaved Africans were traded between.
Africa and Americas
What were the two main countries that colonized North America?
France and Great Britain
Portuguese Explorer that sailed around the Southern tip of Africa and made it all the way to India. He set up a trade route between Portugal and India.
Vasco da Gama
Who is Hernando Cortez?
Spanish explorer who found modern-day Mexico and was able to conquer the Aztecs because they thought he was a god.
How many deaths occurred along the Middle Passage?
2 million
Which event contributed most to the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade during the 1700s?
Demand for slaves in the American colonies that produced cash crops.
Who fought in the Seven Years War (French and Indian War)?
French, English, and their Native Allies.
Portuguese Explorer that sailed to the Southern Tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias