Trans-Saharan Trade Route
This animal was essential for travel across the Sahara, earning the nickname "ships of the desert.
dromedary camel
This luxurious fabric, made only in China, was the most famous good traded on this route
Silk
European nations set out on exploration missions around the world starting in the 16th century. Name these three motivating factors for their explorations.
"Glory, God, and Gold"
This is the term for a permanent settlement that is ruled by a faraway "home" country.
Colony
This term describes the massive global swap of goods, people, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492
The Columbian Exchange
Travelers crossed the desert in large, organized groups like this for protection and companionship.
This vast network of routes connected China all the way to these two distant regions.
Europe and the Middle East
This powerful empire, which controlled land in the Middle East, created the main problem for European traders by blocking access and charging high taxes on Asian goods.
The Ottoman Empire
The three main European countries that were actively colonizing in the New World.
Spain, England, and France
These two deadly diseases, brought unknowingly by Europeans, devastated Native American populations who had no immunity to them
Smallpox and Measles
Name a famous city in West Africa that became wealthy centers of trade and learning.
Timbuktu, Gao.
While goods were traded, so were ideas. This religion spread from its birthplace in India into Central and East Asia along the Silk Road
Buddhism?
To bypass the Ottoman land routes, Portugal's solution was to sail around this continent, ultimately opening a new all-water trade route to Asia.
Africa
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America, and a leader named John Smith helped it survive its difficult start.
Jamestown
This was the name for the three-part route ships followed, carrying manufactured goods to Africa, enslaved people to the Americas, and cash crops back to Europe.
Triangular Trade
Coming from North Africa, this good was so valuable it was often traded for its weight in gold.
Salt
Why did the Silk Road become less safe for traders?
robberies/no more protection
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the world, using the knowledge of explorers before him, like Vasco Da Gama and Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
This group of colonists, known as Pilgrims, settled at Plymouth in 1620 to practice their religion freely. They created an important rulebook called the Mayflower Compact.
The Pilgrims/Puritans
This term refers to the brutal journey across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure, packed tightly into ships under cruel conditions
The Middle Passage
Traders from North Africa would exchange cloth and books for these three key items from West Africa.
Gold, Ivory, Kola Nuts
This Traveler traveled along the Silk Road AND the Trans-Saharan trade route, in order to see every Muslim ruled Kingdom. He ended up in China before returning home.
Ibn Battuta
This Portuguese prince, despite rarely sailing himself, earned his nickname by funding and encouraging voyages down the coast of Africa.
Henry the Navigator
This type of crop was helpful for the success of many new colonies, providing raw material that could be sold and manufactured.
Cash crops
While the Columbian Exchange introduced life-saving new foods like potatoes and corn to Europe, it also brought tragedy to the Americas through diseases. Name two specific cash crops that were grown in the Americas using enslaved labor, which were then shipped to Europe as part of the Triangular Trade.
sugar, tobacco, and cotton