Explorers
In 1492, this explorer sailed the ocean blue and found ... the Caribbean.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This U.S. state is named after a French king.
What is Louisiana?
These caused many native populations to die in large numbers after European explorers began coming to the Americas.
What are diseases?
The trade routes between England, Africa, and the Americas form this shape.
What is a triangle?
Explorer whose crew was the first to make it around the world without him.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
North and South America are named after this explorer.
Amerigo Vespucci.
Countries were motivated to explore by these 3 "G's."
What are gold, glory, and God.
Triangle trade caused significant population decline on this continent.
What is Africa?
This explorer was from China who visited over 30 Asian and African regions.
Who is Zheng He?
This European country was the first to have settlers in the Americas.
Cows, pigs, and sheep were all originally from this side of the exchange.
What is the "Old World?"
Under this economic system, the goal was to get as much of this as possible.
What is gold or silver?
This French explorer claimed present-day Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This country gained wealth from controlling the trade routes along Africa and India, rather than colonizing them.
What is Portugal?
What is the horse?
What is England?
This was the first explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and sail on to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec empire in this country.
What is Mexico?
This introduction of this vegetable helped the population of China grow.
What is corn?
When other countries did not want to trade, these were the solution.
What are colonies?