Reasons for Exploration
These are the 3 G's of Exploration.
God, Glory, and Gold
He landed on an island in the Bahamas but thought he was in India.
Christopher Columbus
This country settled in Jamestown.
England
The Columbian Exchange connected these continents.
The Americas and Europe
Christopher Columbus called the natives he came across this because he thought he was in India
Indians
This is the reason Europeans wanted to find a direct sea route to India.
Too expensive to go overland
He laid the groundwork for all future explorers.
Prince Henry the Navigator
This country settled most of Latin America from modern-day Florida to the tip of South America.
Spain
Name one thing traded from the Americas to Europe.
Tobacco, cotton, corn, sugar, ect...
This is a territory controlled by another country outside of its immediate domain
A colony
"God" means the spreading of Christianity which at this point can be separated into these two categories.
Protestant and Catholic
He explored for France and named an island in modern-day Canada, Mont Real (Montreal)
Jacques Cartier
This country settled Canada.
France
Name one thing traded from Europe to the Americas
Grain, livestock, Christianity, disease, ...
This disease was particularly deadly to natives in the Americas.
Smallpox
Spanish Conquistadors had a desire to find this in the "new world."
Mineral wealth (gold)
He found a direct sea route from Europe to India.
This country settled in eastern South America in modern-day Brazil.
Portugal
This is the name for the particularly rough journey of African slaves across the Atlantic.
Middle Passage
This was the dominant economic power in the Indian Ocean
Dutch East India Company
Christopher Columbus named the island he first landed on San Salvador, which means this in Spanish.
"Holy Savior"
He was the first European to reach the tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
The Puritans
This is the river Jacques Cartier explored and named in Canada.
St. Lawrence River
This is the name of the line created by the Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the "new world" between Spain and Portugal.
Line of Demarcation