Causes of the Age of Exploration
What were the three major reasons for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration?
to find gold and riches, explore and claim new lands, and to spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)
The cruel, unfair, treatment of individuals while offering no pay is _______.
Enslavement
The West Indies
Which group of natives lived in Teepees?
The Plains
This is someone who goes around from place to place trying to get people to accept their religious beliefs
Missionary
The first country to launch large-scale voyages of exploration.
Portugal
What animal was brought to North America as a result of the Columbian Exchange?
Horses, Cows, Chickens etc
This explorer was the first to sail around the world?
Ferdinand Magellen
What are the name of the mounds that the Eastern woodlands people created?
Effigies
Why did they make slaves dance on deck?
This individual started a school for navigation and sponsored 50 voyages although he never explored himself.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
What happened to the Native population of North and South America as a result of European Exploration?
Most died due to foreign diseases.
What European country explored most of Canada and is why many Canadians speak English and the native language of this country?
France
Which group(s) of people were often enslaved during the Age of Exploration?
Native Americans & Africans
Name three examples of technology used to increase sea exploration in the 1400's.
astrolabe, magnetic compass, maps, and caravels, setxant
What was one of the main spices that Europeans were looking for?
pepper, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, cumin
What did the citizens of Europe do after all of these explorers landed in the "New World"?
They immigrated
What type of trade did Christopher Columbus spark that included the trade of ideas, animals, people, and diseases?
The Columbian Exhange
France conquered the majority of this country
Canada
Besides Columbus what other group of people do they believe made it to America first?
The Vikings
Name 3 European countries that competed to secure a sea route to Asia
Portugal, Spain, France, England, Italy, etc.
What was the technical term of the triangular trade route the brought slaves to the New World?
Transatlantic Slave trade
What animal was brought over by Juan Ponce de Leon that multiplied from 13 to 700 in just two years?
Pigs
Give me three specific ways that Natives adapted to their environment?
Using animal skins to create their homes, wearing bark clothing to prevent rain from soaking their clothes, building canoes out of trees to catch salmon, having movable homes so they can be nomadic
What is the modern name of the French Colony in the Caribbean?
Haiti