Age of Exploration
Who discovered the Americas, and who was it named after...
Christopher Columbus, and Amerigo Vespucci.
The most-known imperialist nations during the Age of Exploration were...
Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal.
Another name for the Age of Enlightenment..
The Renaissance.
The names of three new innovations that helped the Age of Exploration...
Astrolabe, (Magnetic) Compass, and (Improved) ships.
Another name for the Columbian Exchange...
The Triangle Trade
This started the Age of Exploration...
The fall of Constantinople.
The economic policy that many imperialist 'mother' nations implemented in order to gain great profit from their colonies...
Mercantilism
The Enlightenment ideas introduced during this era encouraged this...
challenging (self-elected) monarchies, choosing reason and logic over blind faith (usually religious faith).
Laws/discoveries made in the science field during the Age of Exploration...
Newton's Laws of gravitation.
A few goods and materials traded in the Columbian exchange were...
Gold, Silver, Citrus fruits, Tobacco, Corn (Maize), Sugar Cane, Manufactured Goods, Spices, Iron, Iron Products, Furniture, etc. (Do not have to mention all of these; all of them are valid though.)
The main REASON the Age of Exploration started...
The fastest way through Asia had been monopolized by the Ottomans, so the Europeans were desperate to find a faster way or a different route to Asia.
The name of the caste-like system the Spanish imposed on their colonies...
The Encomienda System
The names of a few famous Enlightenment philosophers were...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, etc. (Do not have to mention all of these; all of them are valid though.)
This led to the technological innovations made during the Age of Exploration...
The demand for exploration and the discoveries of new routes to Asia.
The Age of Exploration led to these future events...
The Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World led to important events such as the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the South American Revolutions, the American Civil War, the War of 1812, etc. (There's so many..)
These parts of the New World were especially monopolized by the European powers, which then extracted many of their natural resources...
South America; Peru(Incas), Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia. Central America; Mexico(Aztecs). North America: The United States(Native Indian Tribes). The imperialist nations like Britain, France, Spain and Portugal took their resources; gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, citrus fruits, maize, and cacao.
A few popular enlightenment ideas introduced during the Renaissance era were...
Social Contract, the contract that gives the leaders consent to govern the governed. Everyone has a right of life, liberty, and property, and whoever does not give the people this right should be removed. The efficacy of reason; reason and logic should be valued in society, and no authority should be immune to challenge by reason or logic. Etc. (Do not have to mention all of these; all of them are valid though.)
The effects of the technological innovations made during this time...
Because of the new technology that aided maritime travel, European imperialism was able to spread quickly, and colonies were established all around the globe, especially in the Americas. The profit of these innovations was able to help the European nations build up their armies immensely, which in turn also helped them conquer other parts of the world much more easily.
The trade system that involved real, living people and expanded to supply labor to to all the colonies in the triangular trade. To supply this labor, Africans and Native Americans were often kidnapped and taken to the New World by European collaborators...
The Atlantic Slave Trade.
What did the Age of Exploration lead to...
The Age of Exploration led to the discovery of new, foreign, and rich lands. There was an increase in population and life expectancy for the Europeans due to the foreign foods that were being exported to Europe. However, for the Native Americans, the Age of Exploration led to the colonization of their homelands and introduced them to new religions and diseases that decimated the population, which made the colonization of the New World much easier for the imperialist nations.
The Colonization of the New World led to these events...
The Colonization led to important events such as the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the South American Revolutions, etc. (Do not have to mention all of these; all of them are valid though.)
The effects the Enlightenment ideas had were...
The ideas and challenge to authority (political or religious) brought by the Enlightenment thinkers lead to immense and important social and political revolutions, such as the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Protestant Reformation. All of these changes were caused by the idea that reason and logic should be able to challenge an authority, and intellect and wisdom are better than simple blind faith.
This would have happened if the technological innovations during the Age of Exploration were never created or introduced...
The New World would have possibly never been discovered; the look for a faster route to reach Asia would have taken a considerably longer time. The Columbian Exchange would have never taken place, and the European imperialist nations would have never been able to develop their country and their military as much as they did during the Age of Exploration.
The effects of the Columbian Exchange were...
An increase in population and life expectancy for the Europeans due to the foreign foods that were being exported to Europe. However, for the Native Americans, the Columbian Exchange introduced them to new religions and diseases that decimated the population, making the colonization of the New World much easier for the imperialist nations.