Causes of the Age of Exploration
Three major motives of the Age of Exploration
What is Gold, God and Glory?
The Spanish obtained this important natural resource from the New World?
What is gold?
These group of explorers were seeking "gold, glory and god"
What is a conquistadors?
The French explorer was the first to voyage up the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacque Cartier?
The Age of Exploration took place during this time period.
What are the 1400s -1600s?
The first country to sail outside the limits of the known world and find the sea route to Asia.
What is Portugal?
This part of Columbian Exchange had the most negative effect on Native Americans?
What is disease?
Columbus first landed in the Americas in this place.
Who is Caribbean islands?
This group of Europeans originally settled present-day New York City.
What is the Dutch?
Water route north over North Americas to Asia
What is Northwest Passage?
These 3 pieces of inventions helped improve exploration.
What is astrolabe, compass, caravel, better maps, printing press?
Europeans learned about corn, potatoes, squash from these people.
What is Native Americans?
This individual found a sea trading route to India in the late 1400s.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Both the French and the Dutch were mainly interested in this economic activity in North America.
What is fur trade?
Europeans called North and South America by this term.
What is New World?
The spices were important to the Europeans for this reason.
what is preserve and flavor meat?
The Spanish were able to conquer Central and South America for these 3 reasons.
Who is What is diseases, superior weapons, horses, alliances, war dogs??
This explorer was the first European to sail up the Hudson River in 1609.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The French initially claimed land around these two bodies of water.
What is St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes?
This conquistador conquered the Aztecs.
What is Hernan Cortes?
A basic cause of the Age of Exploration
What is Europe's desire/demand for good from Asia?
Spanish exploration had this effect on Aztecs and Incas.
What is both empires conquered/collapsed?
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the world?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Dutch made alliances with this Native American nation.
What is Iroquois?
The Europeans went to this continent for the slave trade during the Age of Exploration.
What is Africa?