Famous People
Sailed across the ocean in hopes of finding a trade route to Asia
Christopher Columbus
What are the 3 G's?
Gold Glory God
First person to guess my favorite color. You must raise your hand!
BLUE
What did these desires lead to?
1. To expand into new lands
2. To acquire goods
3. To spread Christianity
The Age of Exploration
What coast of Africa did Europeans buy slaves from?
The West Coast of Africa.
Established an important trade route from Europe to India and East Indies.
Vasco De Gama
What is a settlement in a distant land whose citizens keep close ties to their parent country?
Colony
This was the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and America is called the....
Columbian Exchange
What did European exploration in the New World via Africa bring during the Columbia Exchange?
African Slaves
First person to give me a high five.
ha. Be quicker
His crew made the first trip around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
European disease that wiped out more native Americans than any other is what?
Smallpox
List three products that were exported to the “Old World”.
...
Two inventions that helped voyages?
astrolabe
compass
maps
caravel
What 3 countries were part of the Triangular Trade?
England, America, Africa
He reached the Aztec leader, Montezuma, who thought he was a god. In 1521, Cortez defeats the Aztec Empire.
Hernan Cortes
A person who makes maps
A Cartographer
List three products that were imported into the "New World".
...
Who were the four biggest exploring European Countries?
Portugal, Spain, England, France
What coast of Africa did Europeans buy slaves from?
300-600
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa, Dias opened the doors for seafaring trade with India.
Bartolomeu Dias
Judging someone’s culture by the standards of your own, and thinking your culture is better.
ethnocentricism
Explain two positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on the entire world.
New ideas and products being exchanged between various parts of the world, etc.
Roughly what percent of Native Americans died during colonization?
How was Cortez able to defeat the Aztecs?
a combination of superior weaponry and a devastating smallpox outbreak