Causes of the Age of Exploration
The three major motives of the Age of Exploration
What is Gold, God and Glory?
Forced voyage of enslaved Africans to the Americas as a part of the triangular trade
What is the Middle Passage?
A spanish explorer who accidentally landed in the Bahamas while searching for a new route to India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the year when Columbus sailed for the New World
What was 1492?
This type of ship enabled explorers to travel longer, faster and carry more cargo
What are caravels?
The exchange of what was more harmful to the Native Americans than any other material/animal/plant
What are diseases?
Explorers and soldiers of Spain and Portugal who traveled to Mexico/Peru in the 16th century; conqueror
What is a conquistador?
ancient tool typically made of brass that was used by navigators to determine latitude, longitude, and time of day
What is the astrolabe?
What technology allowed explorers to always know which direction was north?
What is the magnetic compass?
The major exchange of plants, food, and animals occurred between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Who is Batholomew Dias?
Three countries China, Japan, and India were known as
What is "the Indies"
What is the Bahamas?
What is a missionary?
First to Cirumnavigate the Globe
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
How Spain and Portugal solve their differences over claims to new lands
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
economic theory in which a country accumulates wealth by exporting more than it imports, government involvement
What is Mercantilism ?
This country sent out the MOST missionaries.
What is Spain?
This individual was the first to find a sea route to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and on to Calicut, India
Who was Vasco Da Gama?
This civilization was conquered by Hernan Cortez
Who were the Aztecs?