Age of Exploration Causes
First country to start the exploration
What is Portugal?
The Spanish name given to a Spanish explorer/soldiers who searched for wealth in the Americas
Who are 'conquistadors'?
I am an explorer for Spain who searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended up in the Americas calling the Natives "Indians"
Who is 'Christopher Columbus'?
The Age of exploration started on this continent
Europe
Which group of people did Columbus encounter in the Bahamas?
Who are the Taino people?
The purchase of Manhattan led to war between the _____________ and the Native Americans.
Who are the Dutch?
Amount of Native Americans that died without a single shot being fired, and how?
up to 90%, because of disease
This explorer conquered the Aztecs.
Cortes
Where did Columbus think he landed?
India
This was a religious settlement established by Spanish Catholics in the Americas to spread Christianity.
What are Missionaries.
Major cause of Age of Exploration
What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?
This was named after Spanish explorer, and is the exchange plants, animals, culture, people, technology, DISEASES, and ideas between the new world, and the Old World .
What is the Colombian exchange?
I am the explorer who had a river, strait, and bay named after me.
Who is Henry Hudson.
This country was able to set up the most colonies over in the New World
What is 'Spain'?
Tracts of farmland given to wealthy colonists by the Spanish were known as ________________?
What are haciendas.
This group was the most powerful in the Spanish colonies. They were Spanish-born people called the ________________
The Mestizos.
What was the Spanish Armada
Fleet of 130 Spanish Warships
I am the explorer wo attempted to increase the population of New France but failed because the French government refused to let Protestants settle in New France
Who is Samuel de Champlain.
What was is name of the Incan City high in the Andes mountains that was abandoned and forgotten for hundreds of years?
Maccu Piccu
Under this form of slavery people were classified as goods with no rights.
The three motivations reasons for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration
To find gold, explore (find new trade routes) and spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)
Sailing around the world...
What is 'circumnavigate'?
He led the conquest of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru
What is Francisco Pizarro?
Christopher Columbus first landed here
Where is Hispaniola( present day Haiti and Dominica Republic?
Which European country challenged Spain's position as the dominant world power by defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588
The trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Triangular Trade
This a Treaty that divided the EASTERN and the WESTERN hemisphere between Portugal and Spain.
What is Treaty of Tordesillas?
A Portuguese explorer, was the first European to sail directly from Europe to India, opening a sea route to the lucrative spice trade in Asia.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
First Place that the Portuguese landed in Africa while trying to find a water route to India
Where is Morocco?
The dominant economic theory of the time in which countries power was based on wealth.
Mercantilism
The Spanish appointed ______________ to rule the territories claimed by Spain.
Who are viceroys.
The Voyage of ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean carrying enslaved Africans to the Americas was known as the _____________________
What is the Middle Passage?
Aztecs location
Mexico
The name of colonies given when the English first Landed in the New World?
Where is Thirteen Colonies?
The POINTS of the Triangle Trade and the Atlantic Slave Trade
What are the outward passage, middle passage and Homeward Passage?