Motivations & Explorers
These three motivations drove Europeans to explore new lands. →
God, Gold, and Glory
This was the name for the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases after 1492.
The Columbian Exchange
This was the name of the brutal voyage Africans endured across the Atlantic.
The Middle Passage
What was the Old World?
Europe, Asia, and Africa
In 1519, this Spanish conquistador led the conquest of the Aztec Empire with help from Indigenous allies
Hernán Cortés
Two major crops from the Americas that became staples in Europe
Potatoes and corn (maize)
Enslaved Africans were primarily sent to work on these kinds of farms
Plantations
The New World and Old World began trading after this event
Columbus’s voyage in 1492
This Italian sailed for Spain and is responsible for the Columbian Exchange
Christopher Columbus
The Columbian Exchange introduced new crops that helped millions, but this killed millions.
Diseases (like smallpox)
The capture and transport of Africans led to political and social instability also known as the…
African Diaspora / disruption of African societies
One animal introduced to the New World from the Old World.
Horse (or cow, pig, sheep)
Name two main nations leading early explorations
Spain and Portugal
Goods exchanged from the New World to the Old World.
Maize, potatoes, tomatoes, cacao, tobacco
Describe the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
he forced transport of enslaved Africans to the Americas as part of the triangular trade
One crop from the New World that changed Old World diets.
Potato, corn, or tomato
What was the New World?
The Americas (North and South America)
Goods exchanged from the Old World to the New World. →
Horses, cattle, wheat, sugar, diseases
The route that traded goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas was known as?
The Triangular Trade
One positive and one negative effect of the Columbian Exchange
Positive: new foods improved diets; Negative: diseases killed millions