Motives & Technology
What three words summarize the main motives of European exploration?
What is “gold, glory, and God”?
Who convinced Spain to fund a westward voyage to Asia in 1492?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Which French explorer founded Quebec in 1608?
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
What was the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds called?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What was the trade network connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas called?
What is the Triangular Trade?
This new type of ship, developed by the Portuguese, allowed long voyages and shallow-water sailing.
What is a caravel?
Who was the first explorer to sail around the tip of South America and begin a circumnavigation of the globe?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The first permanent English colony in North America was founded in 1607 at what location?
What is Jamestown?
Which American crop greatly improved European diets and helped populations grow?
What is the potato (or corn/maize)?
What was the second leg of the Triangular Trade that transported enslaved Africans to the Americas?
What is the Middle Passage?
This device helped sailors measure latitude using the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
Which Portuguese explorer was the first to reach India by sea?
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The Dutch colony of New Netherland later became this English colony.
What is New York?
Up to what percentage of some indigenous populations were killed by European diseases?
What is up to 95%?
Which company helped England control trade in India?
What is the British East India Company?
Which prince sponsored navigation schools and voyages along the coast of Africa?
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This treaty divided the non-European world between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The social class of Europeans born in the Americas was known as what?
Who are the Creoles?
Which animal transformed Native American life by improving hunting and travel?
What is the horse?
What new type of business allowed people to invest in overseas ventures and share profits?
What is a joint-stock company?
This economic policy measured a nation’s strength by the amount of gold and silver it possessed.
What is mercantilism?
What English explorer claimed land along the North American
Who is John Cabot?
The Spanish forced indigenous people to work under what labor system?
What is the encomienda system?
Name one negative consequence of the Columbian Exchange for the Americas.
What is disease or forced labor?
What term describes when a country exports more than it imports to build wealth?
What is a favorable balance of trade?