Motivations
Together, these three G's represent the main motivations for European exploration.
What are God, Gold and Glory?
These animals—such as horses, pigs, and cattle—enabled Europeans to become immune to many diseases.
What are domestic animals?
This Italian explorer is credited with "discovering" the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Cotton, sugar, tobacco, rice, and indigo are grown to make money.
What are Cash crops?
This is the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This "G" refers to explorers' desire for wealth and riches like gold and spices.
What is Gold?
This long, thin sword was used by Spanish explorers in battle.
What is the rapier?
What is Asia? OR What is China and India?
These farms grew crops like cotton and sugar using slaves as their labor.
What are plantations?
The "Old World" refers to these continents.
What are Europe, Africa, and Asia?
Explorers were motivated by this "G" when they wanted to spread Christianity.
What is God?
This weapon, with its thunderous sounds, helped European soldiers overpower Native peoples.
What is an arquebus? (Musket also acceptable).
Columbus called the people he met "Indians" because he thought he was in this region.
What is India?
Triangular trade included these three continents, where slaves, raw materials, and manufactured goods were traded.
What are Europe, Africa, and North (and/or South) America?
A positive effect of the Columbian Exchange was the introduction of these nutritious foods to Europe that helped populations grow.
What are potatoes and corn?
This "G" motivated explorers to seek fame and power for themselves and their countries.
What is Glory?
This is the name for the Spanish soldiers who conquered the Aztec and the Inca.
What are Conquistadors?
In 1492, Columbus landed here, though he believed it was part of Asia.
What are the Caribbean Islands or the Bahamas?
Mother countries get rich off of their colonies under this economic (money) system.
What is mercantilism?
This contagious disease devastated Indigenous populations in the Americas after contact with Europeans.
What is Small Pox?
This was the first European country to be motived by the "Three G's" to explore.
What is Spain?
This invisible weapon aided the Europeans' conquest of the Americas.
What is indigenous?
This is a permanent settlement created and controlled by a powerful country.
What is a colony?
The part of the triangular trade that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas was known as this.
What is the Middle Passage?