European Exploration
What is exploration?
Traveling to discover or learn about new places.
What are the 3 G's?
Gold, Gold, Glory.
What was the Silk Road?
What 3 regions were connected by the Atlantic Triangular Trade?
Europe, West Africas, the Americas.
Which ocean did explorers cross to travel from Europe to the Americas?
Atlantic Ocean
Name one tool that helped sailors navigate.
Compass, astrolabe, or map.
Which G means fame, power, and national pride?
Glory
Name one valuable product traded along the silk road.
Silk or spices.
Name one cash crop grown in the Americas.
Sugar, tobacco, rice, cotton.
Which 2 countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494?
Spain and Portugal
Which explorer sailed in 1492?
Christopher Columbus.
Who usually provided money, ships, and supplies for major exploration voyages?
Kings/Queens.
Why were goods from Asia expensive in Europe?
They traveled long distance through many traders.
What is a manufactured good?
A product made by processing/manufacturing raw materials.
What was one danger sailors faced during long ocean voyages?
Storms, disease, pirates, running out of food or fresh water
Why did Europeans search for new routes to Asia?
To reach valuable goods and trade more directly.
Why would a king want to sponsor an explorer?
To gain wealth, spread Christianity, and increase his country's power and prestige.
Why did Europeans want a sea route to Asia?
To find a more direct route/shorten travel time, reduce costs.
What was the driving force behind the Triangular Trade?
Profit/greed.
Name one major effect of European exploration on indigenous peoples.
Disease, loss of land, violence, forced labor.
Christopher Columbus underestimated how large the earth really was, and he never touched America. Where did Columbus' ships actually land?
The Bahamas.
How did the Silk Road help connect different civilizations and change the world?
It allowed people to trade goods, share ideas, spread populations and religions across the world.
How did the desire to make money from cash crops lead to the growth of slavery in Colonial Georgia?
Plantation owners wanted to make more money selling crops like cotton/rice/indigo, so they forced enslaved Africans to work on plantation. The goal was to increase production & profits.
How did European exploration change what people around the world ate?
Foods like potatoes, tomatoes, corn, and chocolate spread from the Americas to other parts of the world.