Exploration Causes and Technology
This motivation for exploration included desire for wealth, trade, and raw materials.
wealth/profit/economic gain
This explorer completed four voyages trying to find a route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
This crop was brought from the Americas to Europe and changed diets.
potatoes
Europeans were able to dominate Native Americans mainly because of this advantage.
superior weapons
Under mercantilism, colonies provided these to Europe.
raw materials
This cause of exploration involved competition between European nations.
National Pride
This explorer led the first expedition to sail around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
The Columbian Exchange is best described as this type of interaction.
What is cultural exchange (sharing goods, ideas, plants, animals)
The Spanish mission system mainly spread this.
Christianity
Colonies also served as these for European goods.
markets
This tool helped sailors determine direction by showing north.
Compass
Columbus originally sailed for this country.
Spain
This major negative effect devastated Native American populations.
disease
This system gave Spanish colonists land worked by Native Americans.
encomienda system
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
triangular trade
Before new navigation tools, sailors struggled mainly with this problem.
not knowing their location or direction
Columbus’s goal was to find this route.
a westward route to Asia
This system of trade brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
the slave trade (or triangular trade)
The encomienda system had this major negative impact on Native Americans.
destruction of communities / forced labor
Match this colony to religion: Pensylvania= this religion.
Quaker
Name one navigation tool (besides the compass) that helped explorers travel.
astrolabe or quadrant
One goal of Columbus’s later voyages was to do this with Native Americans.
convert them to Christianity or build settlements
The Columbian Exchange led to this long-term global connection.
globalization or widespread exchange between continents
European colonization spread religion because of this pattern
Europeans bringing their religion to colonies
This country controlled large parts of Central and South America
Spain