Vocab Pt 1
one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas
What is the New World?
a pole with a flat blade used to row or steer a boat through the water.
What is an oar?
Many European explorers went to the New World and were seeking God, Gold, and Glory.
What is true?
Name one positive effect of the Columbian Exchange for Europeans, and one negative effect for Native Americans
What is positive- helped to exchange new foods like corn
What is negative- it brought diseases that killed many Natives due to the lack of immunity they had to the disease
the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
What is colonization?
a piece of evidence created by someone at the time of the event. Example: a diary entry or autobiography.
The Age of Exploration began because Europeans wanted to study Native American culture.
What is false?
Name 2 things that you learned about the Atlantic Slave Trade?
What is they were chained together in small area under the ship, there was barely any sleeping room and many people died because of disease spreading quickly.
a type of ship built for long sea voyages and used during the Viking expansion. The hull was wider, deeper and shorter than a longship, and could take more cargo and be operated by smaller crews
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
What is the traingular trade?
The Columbian Exchange was known as the spread of plants, animals, goods, and diseases between the Old World and New World
What is true?
Describe the Middle Passage.
What is the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. Many slaves did not make it due to disease and sickness
crossing the Atlantic and concerning countries on both sides of the Atlantic including Great Britain and the U.S.
What is transatlantic?
a long, involved story, account, or series of incidents often about heroic achievements
What are sagas?
The Treaty of Tordesillas altered the course of exploration by creating a division of lands between Spain and France called Lines of Demarcation.
What is false?
Summarize this quote:
“...they are frequently stowed so close, to allow no other position than lying on their sides. Nor will the height between deck permit the indulgence of an upright posture. ...In each of the apartments are placed three or four large buckets ...to which, when necessary, the Negroes have recourse. It often happens that those who are placed at a distance from the buckets, in endeavoring to get to them, rumble over their companions, in consequence of their being shackled ... unable to proceed and prevented from getting to the tubs, the necessities of nature are not to be resisted, ease themselves as they lie... In the morning they were dragged up and their shackles inspected. Any slaves who had died during the night (or too sick to recover) were unchained and thrown overboard. Their bodies were quickly eaten by the sharks that followed every slave ship.”
What is Enslaved Africans were packed so close together they cannot use the bathroom. They are given 3-4 buckets to use the bathroom in, but with so many people and some so far away, they cannot get to the bucket in time. Enslaved people are laying in their own waste. Those who die overnight are thrown overboard. Sharks follow the ships because they have become accustomed to this practice.
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
What is the Middle Passage?
a long, narrow warship, powered by both oar and sail, used by the Vikings and other northern European peoples.
What are longships?
Read quote below and what does the author say about how enslaved Africans were brought on a ship to begin the tortous Middle Passage?
“I was likewise told by a Negro woman that as she was on her return home, one evening, from some neighbors... she was kidnapped; and, notwithstanding she was big with child, sold for a slave. This transaction happened a considerable way up the country; and she had passed through the hands of several purchasers before she reached the ship.”
What is
Africans were kidnapped (being pregnant made no difference) and was sold into slavery. This happened many places up and down the African coast. Enslaved people were often sold into slavery many times before actually reaching the ship, which shows that many people were involved.