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What is cartography?
Map making
I'm given credit for discovering the Americas.
Columbus
The economic system seeks to increase a nation's wealth and power by maximizing exports and minimizing imports, thus increasing a country's power. What is it called?
Mercantilism
A time when Europeans began to explore the world by sea
Age of Exploration
A trade network across the continents that became known as the Triangle of Trade was between which 3 continents?
Asia, Europe, and America
caravel
Columbus gave us this name because he thought he had landed in this location.
Indians
The New World introduced North America to what goods? Name 3
vanilla, tobacco, beans, cacao (which can be harvested to make chocolate), pumpkins, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, pepper, avocados, and peanuts.
The Place explorers were trying to get to by searching for faster and safer trade routes.
Asia
The widespread exchange of animals, plants, diseases, people, ideas, and culture from the Old World to the New World began in 1492.
Columbian Exchange
What tool did explorers use to determine direction?
compass
My crew was the first to go all the way around the world.
Magellan
They were exploring to gain the 3 G's what are they
God, Gold And Glory
What word means to go all the way around the globe?
circumnavigate
In terms of animals, the Old World contributed livestock such as name 2
cows, sheep, pigs, and horses
Ships used this to sail against or into the wind
Triangular or Lateen Sails
Europeans called me this instead of Asia?
Indies
What did explorers want from Asia?
spices
African kingdoms and merchants would capture men, women, and children from rival tribes and offer them up for sale.
These enslaved people were then forced to endure a brutal two to three-month journey to the Americas on what is now known as
The middle passages
How did innovations and advances in technology pave the way for exploration?
It not only made exploration possible, but Explorers were able to take longer, safer voyages
In 1488, the explorer became the first European explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
Columbus thought he was in Asia but he actually landed where?
The Caribbean, Central America, Bahamas
What was the main focus of exploration for early explorers?
Find new trade routes to Asia
The Country and or name of the ruler who financed (bankrolled) Columbus' expeditions?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Juan Ponce de León was a Spanish-born conquistador who made it his mission to find riches, such as gold and the famed “fountain of youth”. And he became the first governor of Puerto Rico.
After losing his position, Ponce de León led in the first exploration of what state?
Florida