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This man thought he had reached islands off of the coast of India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This term literally means to circle the earth by ship.
What is CIRCUMNAVIGATION?
The reason why so many Europeans wanted to buy more spices.
What is to flavor and PRESERVE their food?
A shortage of cheap/free labor occurred when this group of people died in large numbers.
What is the Native Americans?
_________ defeated the Spanish Armada by firing cannons of fire onto Spanish ships.
This explorer discovered a route to India around Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
These were both technological advances that made long-distance exploration by sea possible during this time.
What are CARAVELs (ships) and the MAGNETIC COMPASS?
Reasons why the land route to Asia was impractical.
What are: it took too long, it was dangerous, it cost too much money?
The Columbian Exchange was more favorable for THIS "World."
What is the Old World?
Many Native Americans died from _______ brought to the New World from Europe.
This explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
What is COMMERCE?
The "three Gs"
What are GOD, GLORY, and GOLD?
The 3 reasons why Africans were the "logical" answer to the labor shortage in the New World.
What are: 1. Immune to many diseases. 2. Mostly experienced farmers. 3. Unfamiliar with area, so dependent on captors.
What is a COLONY?
The first person to circumnavigate the world
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
What is MERCANTILISM?
While the idea was already widespread, Columbus was the first one to definitively prove this theory.
What is that the earth is round?
This journey is described by both African and White witnesses as horrific.
What is the MIDDLE PASSAGE?
This explorer made the longest voyage.
Who is Magellan?
This man was a victim of mutiny, but his actual death was never recorded, since he was left in a ship adrift in Northern Canada.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE?
The _____ and the ________ were invented by Arabs and Chinese to make exploration possible.
What is ASTROLABE and COMPASS?
A trade chain that developed as a result of the Age of Exploration.
What is TRIANGULAR TRADE?
______ started slave trade in the Americas.
What is SUGAR?