Explorers
why did European rulers encouraged ocean exploration?
They wanted to find new trade routes to make money
Which items did the New World introduce to Europe?
corn, beans, potatoes
Why did Europeans to turn to Africa for slave labor?
-Europeans began using plantations to profit off of labor intensive crops like sugar cane
- 98% of the Native American population died
- The African population was immune to many of the same diseases as Europeans
What allowed the Spanish to dominate the Native Americans?
Superior weapons, horses, & disease
Which two countries led exploration and colonization during the 1400s and first part of the 1500s?
Spain & Portugal
Which civilization lived in the Andes mountains of South American and farmed using terraces.
Incas
Who founded a school of navigation for sailors and map makers, and financed some of Portugal's first expeditions?
Prince Henry
Which civilization in modern day Mexico that built their capital, Tenochtitlan, in the middle of a Lake
Aztec
Moroccan traveler who documented much of what we know about early African societies
Ibn Battuta
Which civilization in the Americas was one of the first civilizations to come up with the number zero
Mayas