Age of Exploration
What did Europeans want from Africa?
Gold
The Centuries long swap of cultures, people, ideas, plants, animals, and diseases.
What did Vasco de Gama discover?
Gama reached India by going around Africa.
What political problems were happening in Spain?
Spain had been fighting the North African Moors to unify their nation under Christian rule.
How were Explores different from Conquistadors?
Explorers traveled the world to learn more about its geography and wanted to map things for trading routes.
Conquistadors only wanted to travel the world for Gold, God, and Glory.
What did Jacques Cartier discover?
He discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence seaway.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Christopher Columbus was a navigator who explored the Americas for Spain. People say that he was the discoverer of America, but this is not true.
What was the request for the Northern European explorers?
To see if they could find a northwest passage to China.
What diseases were passed to the New World during the Columbian Exchange?
Smallpox, influenza, typhus, measles, malaria, diphtheria, and whooping cough.
True or False
None of the European explorers could find a Northwest passage
True