Exploration
Name 3 motivations for European exploration.
God (religious fervor was high)
Gold (discovery of silver or bullion in Americas)
Glory (land for mother country and spirit of individual accomplishment)
Name of the new trade route that emerges as a result of the Age of Discovery or Exploration.
The Atlantic Trade Route
Inventor of the printing press.
Johannes Gutenberg
True or False:
The population of the Americas begins to drop after the 1500s.
True!
What is the name of a Portuguese sailing ship that contains lateen sails and made exploration across the seas possible?
Caravel
Name the term that describes the exchange of goods, ideas, diseases, animals, and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.
Columbian Exchange
What is humanism?
True or False:
Early European sea explorers had an extensive amount of knowledge of the lands they came across.
False!
Name the 2 maritime European countries that led the early age of exploration.
Spain and Portugal
Initially, these countries were unaware of much of the world but slowly they learned more.
Name of the journey that enslaved Africans had to endure from Africa to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices. He led the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther.
True or False:
The Portuguese were leaders in technology and seagoing but were more interested in creating trading posts than colonies, specifically in Africa and Asia.
True!
Name three empires that Europeans encountered and conquered in the Americas.
Aztec: Mostly modern-day Mexico
Maya: Mostly southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras
Inca: Mostly Peru, Chile, and Bolivia
Name of the labor systems that emerge in Latin America as a result of plantations and enslaved labor of the indigenous of the Americas and Africans.
Encomienda and hacienda systems.
Describe the main idea of Machiavelli's book titled The Prince.
It was a a guide for rulers on how to gain and maintain power called The Prince, urged rulers to use whatever methods were necessary to achieve their goals.
True or False:
Columbus's goal of his first voyage was to spread Christianity.False!
Name the two regions of the world where Portugal focused their trading posts efforts.
Africa and Asia
An economic policy under which a mother country seeks to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and raw materials from colonies.
Mercantilism.
Describe the Catholic Reformation.
True or False:
The defeat of King Philip II's Spanish Armada by Queen Elizabeth I's English Navy weakened England's power.
False.