Vocabulary
Land surrounded on 3 sides of water.
What is a Peninsula?
What is Greece?
European coutries wanted new trade routes to the Americas, Africa, and Asia for spices, cold, raw materials, and goods.
What is Age of Expoloration?
This brings warm water from the gulf of Mexico to Western Europe. Also, known as a "giant moving river of warm water in the ocean."
What is the Gulf Stream?
Trading goods, services, and ideas all over the world.
What is Global Trade?
Sharing of music, ideas, food, religion, culture with different people around the world.
What is cultural diffusion?
Weak leadership, Economic decline, invasions, and loss of loyalty resulted in fall of this empire.
What is the Roman Empire?
The trade route from Europe, to Asia, to the New World.
What is the Triangle of Trade?
Name the peninsula in Northern Europe by the Norwegian Sea.
What is the Scandinavian Peninsula?
This positive effect of colonization are types of this: compass, improved maps, gunpowder and weapons, printing press.
What are technological advancements?
A wealthy, developed country with lots of economic activity.
What is a First World Country?
Ural mountains contained these natural resources that helped industrialize Europe.
What is Iron and Coal?
These early European Nations set out to colonize lands in Americas, Africas, and Asia and became strong sea powers.
What is Spain, England, France, and Portugal?
Name the Peninsula that contains Spain.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
The Indigenous people forced to perform manual labor and were no longer free. It was a negative effect to European Colonization.
What is Slavery?
A country that accumulates land beyond it's own borders.
What is an Empire?
What early civilizations was responsible for creating strong roads, laws, and government systems.
What is the Roman Empire?
The Ocean between the New World and Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
These mountain separates Europe and Asia. They are also rich in iron, copper, and gold.
What is the Ural Mountains?
The colonized lands lost their natural resources to Europe and became poor
Third World Country?
A poorer, developing nation with little economic activity.
What is a Third World Country?
The major world powers between 476 and 1492.
What is China, India, Mali, and Arab Empire?
Steady Winds that blow from East to West. Sailors used during the Age of Exploration.
What is Trade Winds?
This natural source of water provided transportation, goods, food to the central parts of Europe. Like the Danube and Rhine.
What is a river?
This country became very rich due to Colonization.
What is Great Britain?