People
Terms
Causes
Effects
Sources
100
This man thought he had reached islands off of the coast of India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This term literally means to circle the earth by ship.
What is CIRCUMNAVIGATION?
100
The reason why so many Europeans wanted to buy more spices.
What is to flavor and preserve their food?
100
A shortage of cheap/free labor occurred when this group of people died in large numbers.
What is the Native Americans?
100
This diagram describes a vocabulary word.
What is MERCANTILISM?
200
North and South America are named after this explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
These were both technological advances that made long-distance exploration by sea possible during this time.
What are CARAVELs (ships) and the MAGNETIC COMPASS?
200
Reasons why the land route to Asia was impractical.
What are: it took too long, it was dangerous, it cost too much money?
200
The Columbian Exchange was more favorable for THIS "World."
What is the Old World?
200
This was sent from Europe to Africa.
What are guns, cloth, iron, beer?
300
This explorer conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
300
These professional soldiers from Spain subdued native peoples in the Americas.
Who are CONQUISTADORs?
300
The "three Gs"
What are GOD, GLORY, and GOLD?
300
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.
300
This primary source describes what?
What is the MIDDLE PASSAGE?
400
This explorer conquered the Incan Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
400
The Spanish system that provided cheap labor (essentially slavery) in the New World by selling land along with the native people who lived on it.
What is ENCOMIENDA?
400
While the idea was already widespread, Columbus was the first one to definitively prove this theory.
What is that the earth is round?
400
This journey is described by both African and White witnesses as horrific.
What is the MIDDLE PASSAGE?
400
This explorer made the longest voyage.
Who is Magellan?
500
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?
500
An example of this is:
What is COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE?
500
This economic system provided the strong motivation to search for gold, leading to exploration.
What is MERCANTILISM?
500
A trade chain called THIS developed as a result of the Age of Exploration.
What is TRIANGULAR TRADE?
500
This is the most significant cause of the population decline shown in this graph.
What is DISEASE?
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