Early Exploration
What are the 3 G Motivations for Exploration?
Compass
A Spanish conqueror
conquistador
In the Americas, slavery was hereditary. What does this mean?
A child of a slave would be born into slavery.
to travel all the way around something
circumnavigation
Which two nations dominated early exploration?
Portugal and Spain
Light, fast sailing ship
Caravel
The New World is made up of which continents?
North and South America
What did the Native Americans help the European settlers with that allowed them to be successful in the colonies?
Teach them how to hunt and new farming techniques.
What did the European nations want from Asia in the 1400s?
Spices, Tea, Silk
The explorer that got the credit for circumnavigating the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
Cartographers
What disease did the Europeans bring to the Americas that significantly depleted the Native American population?
small pox
The longest, most dangerous part of the slave trade.
The Middle Passage
What was the goal of mercantilism?
Which explorer was the first to sail all the way around Africa to reach India?
Vasco da Gama
Tool that was used to help steer ships.
Sternpost Rudder
Name the two Spanish explorers that explored and claimed Mexico and Peru for Spain.
Pizzaro-Peru
Raw materials from colonies to Europe, Manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, Slaves from Africa to Colonies. What is this trade pattern called?
Triangular Trade
This treaty divided newly discovered land between the new world and the old world
Treaty of Tordesillas
What passage did the English and the French continuously try to explore that they could never get through?
Tool that was used to find a ships latitude
Astrolabe
Encomienda System
Why did the Europeans look to Africa for slave labor?
They needed more workers as the Native American populations started to die out.
Spanish Born people that moved the the Americas are known as what?
Peninsulares