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Exploration

100

Who is known for discovering America in 1492?

Christopher Columbus

200

Who are the conquistadors?

1. Spanish explorers who conquered parts of the New World using guns and horses____

300

Why did explorers want to find the Northwest Passage?

To establish a lucrative trading route between Europe and Asia. 

400

Which explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe?

Ferdinand Magellan

Motivations

100

What was one of the primary motivations for explorers during this time?

God, Glory, and Gold

200

What was a religious motivation for European exploration?

To spread Christianity

300

What is mercantilism?

1. a system in which a country attempts to gain wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals.

400

What did explorers seek to establish to increase trade?

Colonies

Columbian Exchange

100

What was one positive effect of the Columbian Exchange?

1. New foods and animals

2. more food helped increase the european population

3. new technologies brought to the new world -Ex . carvel, compass, astrolabe, rifles, knives

200

What were the 3 areas involved in the Triangular Trade Route?

Europe, Africa, Americas (new world)

300

What was the Columbian Exchange?  (4)

The exchange of diseases ideas food and populations between the new world and the old world after 1492

400

What negative impact did exploration have on indigenous populations?

1.  people in the new world were enslaved

2.  diseases brought to the new world - Ex. malaria,smallpox, measles

3. African slaves were brought to the new world

Technological Advances

100

What type of ship design allowed for longer sea voyages?

caravel

200

What tool uses earth’s magnetic fields to show true north

magnetic compass

300

What tool uses the positions of the stars or sun to determine the location of latitude to tell time

astrolabe

400

What things (2) gave the conquistadors an advantage over the native people?

• Guns and horses

Miscellaneous

100

What term describes the exchange of goods between the New and Old Worlds?

Columbian Exchange

200

1. Why did Africa participate in the Triangular Trade Route?

• To sell enslaved people for guns and gunpowder

300

What comes from the West African slaves of different tribes who were brought to Charleston in the late 1500s

Gullah culture

400

Describe the language of G.C.

The Gullah language is an English-based creole language that combines different African dialects.