Vocab
the capture and transport of Africans to the Americans from the 16th century to the 19th century
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
The "Navigator," who lead to Portuguese exploration with his $$$.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal?
An invention that allowed a ship to travel in any direction
What are triangular sails?
The religion that Europeans wanted to spread around the globe.
What is the Catholic faith?
This is the place were the slaves from Africa were being transported to
What is North, Central, South, America?
A Spanish soldier and explorer who conquered lands in the Americas in the 1500s.
What is a Conquistador
This explorer went WEST in 1492 for Spain, even though he was Italian. He really did not know where he was when he landed.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What is the astrolabe?
The item above ALL else the Europeans wanted more of.
What is GOLD?
What were the conditions like on the transportation ships?
Dark, cramped, Diseases, miserable, sea sickness, iron chains, beatings, death.
the exchange of goods and resources between the "New World" (the Americas) and the "Old World" (Europe, Africa, and Asia
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first European explorer to reach India by SEA! (He's from Portugal 🇵🇹 )
Who is Vasco De Gamma
This tool allowed explorers to navigate and know which direction they were headed in.
What is the compass?
One of the G's - the fame that European explorers AND monarchs were after.
What is GLORY?
This is a type of crop grown not for the purpose of eating, but for profit.
What are cash crops
a economic theory that makes a one sided trade deal with the mother country and her colonies.
What is mercantilism?
The Spanish explorer who wiped out the Aztecs and killed king Montezuma.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
These vessels changed how Europeans traveled the seas. Small, quick ships.
What is the caravel?
The G that says they should be exploring to spread their religious ideas around the world.
What is God?
These types of crops are called cash crops (3)
What are Tobacco, Cotton, and Sugar Cane
A group of people living together who have ties to their homeland
What is a colony?
The four nations of Europe most concerned with exploration.
What is Portugal, Spain, France, and England?
The Portuguese had the most advanced (What) that were up to date for the time and used for navigation.
What are maps?
Can you explain what the 3 G's are?
God- Spread their religion around the globe to those they conquer.
Gold- (Gold, silver, platinum, emeralds, anything valuable)
Glory- Fame/ Fortune. Wanting to be remembered
These are reasons why Europeans were interested in slavery.
Make money from trading other slaves and make a business, or to purchase firearms.
Native American slaves were dying to disease, they needed labor for roads and buildings, and to farm cash crops.