Age of Exploration Causes
Which country claimed Canada first?
France
The Spanish name given to a Spanish explorer/soldiers who searched for wealth in the Americas
Who are 'conquistadors'?
I am an explorer for Spain who searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended up in the Americas calling the Natives "Indians"
Who is 'Christopher Columbus'?
The Age of exploration started on this continent
Europe
The magnetic compass always points ...
What is 'North'?
What was the purpose of China's exploration of new place?
To show strength, wealth, and power.
How did Indigenous peoples die without a single shot being fired?
Disease
This explorer conquered the Aztecs.
Hernan Cortes
Where did Columbus think he landed?
India
What ocean did explorers have to cross to get to the "New World"
Atlantic Ocean
Major cause of Age of Exploration
What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?
This was named after Spanish explorer, and is the exchange plants, animals, culture, people, technology, DISEASES, and ideas between the new world, and the Old World .
What is the Colombian exchange?
There are two continents named after me.
Amerigo Vespucci
This country was able to set up the most colonies over in the New World
What is 'Spain'?
Where was Ferdinand Magellan killed by natives?
the Philippines
This group was technically the first to arrive in North America, even before Columbus
The Vikings.
A series of trade routes connecting Europe and Asia by land.
Silk Road
My crew was the first to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
What ocean did Zheng He mainly sail in.
Indian Ocean
What were the names of Columbus' three ships
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
The three motivations reasons for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration
To find gold, explore (find new trade routes) and spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)
Sailing around the world...
What is 'circumnavigate'?
He led the conquest of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru
What is Francisco Pizarro?
Christopher Columbus first landed here
Where is Hispaniola( present day Haiti and Dominica Republic?
How long were some of the ships Zheng He sailed on?
400ft
The trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Triangular Trade
What was the name of the Spanish class system that enslaved the Native Americans?
Encomienda System.
A Portuguese explorer, was the first European to sail directly from Europe to India, opening a sea route to the lucrative spice trade in Asia.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
In what modern US state is the Hudson River located?
New York
The dominant economic theory of the time in which countries power was based on wealth.
Mercantilism
What caused the caused the Atlantic/international slave trade to become a major economic activity?
Native population died out, more land to be farmed, and the Africans were immune to European disease.
Name of the passage that ran through the Triangle of Trade
Middle Passage
Where were the Aztecs located?
Mexico
The name of colonies given when the English first Landed in the New World?
Where is Thirteen Colonies?
What three major continents were apart of the Triangle of Trade?