Europeans Explore Overseas
What is a simple, but very important reason, the Europeans began to explore the world?
Spices
This explorer reached the Caribbean Islands in 1492?
Columbus
The voyage that brought captured enslaved Africans to the West Indies and Americas.
Middle Passage
European interactions with this group lead to massive changes across the globe.
Indigenous Peoples
This person makes maps
Cartographer
The three G's of Exploration
God, Gold, Glory
A Spanish conqueror, who was a leader in Spanish conquests.
Conquistador
Europe, Africa, and the Americas made up this trading network.
Trans Atlantic or Triangle of Trade
Explorers began crossing this ocean in the late 1400s
Atlantic
An economic policy that builds wealth by exporting more than they import.
Mercantilism
Advances in this type of building led to venturing out further into the ocean.
Ship
The indigenous people of the Americas lacked this, the power to fight off disease.
Immunity
The estimated number of Africans shipped to the Americas and enslaved.
10-12 million
This term is a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
Columbian Exchange
To travel completely around the world
Circumnavigate
This device is used to determine geographical direction.
Compass
A war fought between groups in the same country or region.
Civil War
An agricultural product grown and to be sold for a profit.
Cash Crop
One major economic impact of the Columbian Exchange is the increase in this, which is the act of exchanging goods or services between people or countries.
Trade
Having full, independent power
Sovereign
This country was the first to lead to way in global exploration.
Portugal
Portugal established a large colony in what is this modern South American country.
Brazil
The country that began slave trading.
Portugal
This system in Spanish colonies used Native American labor on European owned land.
Encomienda
A representative of the king of Spain who ruled colonies in his name.
Viceroy