Explorers
This explorer sailed around the world and was given credit for it.
Who is Magellan?
The purpose of Columbus' first voyage from Spain was this.
What is to find a water route going west to reach Asia and the East Indies.
This European nation sponsored Christopher Columbus and then claimed land first in the Americas.
Who is Spain?
Europeans needed this item to preserve their food longer so they went looking for it in India.
What is spices?
An agreement for countries to protect one another.
What is a colony?
This European explorer sailed around the tip of Africa and found an all water route to Asia.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
An enslaved person's journey from the west coast of Africa to the lands of the Americas was called this.
What is the Middle Passage?
This European country was the first to explore the west coast of Africa and control the slave trade in Africa.
Who is Portugal?
North American crops that became popular in Europe due to the Columbian Exchange.
What are corn and potatoes?
Name the 3 G's that proved to be the economic reasons European countries wanted to explore America.
What is God, glory, and gold.
This European explorer discovered that Columbus found undiscovered land and was not in Asia? Two continents are named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Ships sailed routes that formed 3 legs of a geographic triangle. Trading stations were located in West Africa , the Americas, and Europe. It was known as this.
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
The mother country claimed the coast of Eastern North America and the Hudson Bay.
Who is England?
Europeans were interested in and wanted to develop sea routes to trade for this reason.
What is to find easy routes for trade, so they could make money and not pay high prices?
Sailors sailed for their nation to make them proud and become famous for this reason.
What is to gain "glory"?
The conquistador that conquered the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
European nations hoped to establish this in Asia.
What are trading empires?
This mother country claimed the land of Florida, Central America, and Western South America.
Who is Spain?
This was the global exchange of goods, technology, ideas, and even disease.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
At first, the Portuguese and Spanish used these people as slaves for the plantation colonies.
Who are the Native Americans?
The conquistador that conquered the Incas.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro
This item allowed Europeans to conquer Native Americans easily because they didn't have it.
What is gunpowder?
This mother country claimed land in Central North America (Great Lakes Region and Canada).
Who is France?
What is disease such as small pox?
The goal of mercantilism as this.
What is to create money and power for the country/government?