Spice Trade
These goods were valuable and sold for a lot because they could be used to flavor/preserve food, make medicines, and make stuff smell good.
What are spices?
Columbus travelled West hoping to find India/the Indies but instead landed here.
Where are the Bahamas?
This English explorer was an Italian who changed his name after England funded his voyages. He sailed to North America in 1497.
Who is John Cabot?
This country started colonization in modern-day Canada (they founded Quebec and Montreal).
What is France?
This is like indentured servitude. Except much worse with longer working hours, an "owner" or "master," very little/no rights, and often involved back breaking work on plantations.
What is slavery?
This Venetian (Italian) explorer took notes of his travels to Asia and encouraged exploration.
Who is Marco Polo?
Who is Spain?
This colony was the first permanent English colony and was founded in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
This trade good ended up causing both France and the Dutch (Netherlands) to explore and settle in the New World.
What is Fur?
This is the route enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic (from Africa to the Americas).
What is the Middle Passage?
This country/these people controlled the Spice Trade before European explorers arrived.
What is Arabia/who are the Arabs?
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This fearsome English pirate was attacked by Spanish raids and started England's fierce reputation as "rulers of the seas."
Who is Francis Drake?
This English explorer, hired by the Dutch, searched for the NW Passage and now has a river and a bay named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Disease, Native American relations, starvation, and extreme temperatures were all apart of this.
What were the issues New World explorers met with?
These were spices that were highly valued during the Age of Exploration (you only need to list 1).
What is pepper, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, mace, ginger, or saffron. (salt counts, though it wasn't as valuable and was not foreign).
The Treaty of Tordesillas split the western hemisphere's land (New World) between these 2 empires.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
These are the main reasons England wanted to colonize (settle) in the New World.
What are wealth and power/land?
This colony was taken over by England after the Dutch gave up on it and "abandoned" it.
What is New York? (Or New Amsterdam).
This country took over the Spice Trade after Portugal was weakened.
What is the Netherlands? (Or the Dutch).
Besides spices, this was the other reason for exploration.
This explorer realized that Spain's treatment of the natives was cruel and tried to end their slavery.
This is the first main reason England wanted to sail west (to the New World).
This explorer sailed up the St. Lawrence river, founded Montreal (Mount Royal), and made peace with Native Americans, who taught him to brew pine tea for scurvy.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This idea connected both hemispheres (halves of the Earth)/continents and cultures, but also led to colonization (settlements) and conflict/wars.
New World exploration.