Trade routes
This ancient trade route connected China to Europe, famous for silk and spices.
silk road
This ocean separates Europe and Africa from the Americas, which explorers crossed to reach the New World.
Atlantic Ocean
When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they called the people already living there this name.
Native Americans or Indigenous people
This word represents the desire for wealth that motivated explorers to find new trade routes and riches like gold and spices.
gold
What was the first book printed by the printing press.
The Bible
This ocean was important for trade between Africa, India, and Asia before Europeans explored sea routes.
indian ocean
Before Europeans, this group of people were the original inhabitants of the Americas.
Native Americans
European explorers brought these to the Americas, which caused many Indigenous people to get sick and die.
Diseases
Explorers and missionaries wanted to spread this major world religion to new lands.
Christianity
This was one major reason the printing press helped spread ideas so quickly.
It made books faster and cheaper.
European explorers searched for a sea route around this continent to reach Asia and its valuable goods.
africa
Europeans were searching for new routes to this continent to trade for spices and gold.
Asia
This animal, brought by Europeans, changed Indigenous peoples' ways of hunting and traveling in the Americas.
horse
This motivation, meaning fame and national pride, made kings and countries want to claim new lands.
glory
Before the printing press only these types of people usually had access to books.
The wealthy,monks,and church leaders.
This route connected West Africa to North Africa and was famous for trading gold and salt.
Trans-Saharan Trade Route
This term describes the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World after contact.
columbian exchange
Europeans often forced Indigenous people to work on farms, in mines, or convert to this religion.
Christianity
Spanish explorers known as conquistadors came to the Americas mainly for these three reasons.
God,Gold,and Glory
This major historical movement was sparked in part by the printing of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses.
The splitting in the church also known as Protestant reformation.
The new ocean trade routes in the 1400s and 1500s led to the start of this global system of exchanging goods, cultures, and ideas.
Globalization
This invention helped spread news and maps about the New World quickly across Europe.
printing press
This was one major long-term effect of European colonization on Indigenous cultures and populations.
loss of land,population decline, or destruction of culture.
Gold,God,and Glory were motivations that led to this global time of exploration and colonization between the 1400s and 1700s.
Age of Exploration
Because it allowed knowledge to travel across borders and cultures, the printing press is often seen as an early example of something we still do today.
Globalization