Explorers
Who discovered the Bahamas?
Christopher Columbus
Modern day Mexico
Aztecs
What trade route connected Africa, Europe, and the Americas?
Triangular Trade
Name a technology that was advanced during the 1400s
(Magnetic compass, caravel, astrolabe)
Why would the "smoking pipe" sales go up following the Columbian Exchange?
Tobacco was now in Europe.
Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Pizarro landed where and conquered who?
Modern day Peru
Incas
What was traded from Europe to Africa?
Manufactured goods. (Rum, Weapons, Textiles)
*Trade Question*
In order to make the most profit Asia, the Dutch, Britain, and Portugal established these---
Trade companies
Why do Brazilians speak Portuguese?
They were colonized by Portugal
Who was the second explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Sir Francise Drake
Churches were built in Latin America in hopes of?
Spreading Christianity
List 3 goods that were exchanged from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere during the Columbian Exchange.
Beef, Chicken, Pig, Wheat, Grapes, Peaches, Bananas, Coffee, Onion, Citrus fruits, sugar cane.
*TRADE QUESTION*
Which economic system is best describes this list?
-nation needs a positive balance of trade
-Hopes of building mother country profits
-Government controls the economy through tariffs.
Mercantilism
Why does Canada speak french?
They were colonized by France
Which explorer found an alternate route to India?
Vasco da Gama
*Daily Double*In Southern America one of the most important resources the Spanish wanted was?
Mining resources. (Gold and Silver)
What was brought that caused millions of indigenous to die at an alarming rate?
Diseases (Smallpox and Influenza)
All technological advances made for explorers had origins from
Islamic and European countries
What led to horses being a common animal in Indigenous culture?
The Columbian exchange
This explorer started navigation schools in Africa
Prince Henry the Navigator
The colonial society in South America had a class system that was?
Rigid
What was traded from the Americas to Europe during the Triangular trade?
Raw materials. (Sugar, tobacco, timber, etc..)
Europeans acquire ideas from Islamic world ---> European ? ----> Europeans expand their exploration of the Western Hemisphere
Navigational skills improve
No. They did not have grapes yet.