Spaniards
A Spanish warrior / explorer. Explored Central and South America, killing, stealing, and enslaving native peoples.
What is a conquistador?
an instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.
What is a compass?
13th century Italian explorer that traveled extensively along land routes to China and back.
Who was Marco Polo?
Was the first person to reach North America 500 years before Columbus
Who was Lief Ericson?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Known as the 3 G's. They are the primary reasons for exploration.
What are God, Glory, and Gold?
An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets
What is an Astrolabe?
Chinese admiral during the Ming Dynasty, he led great voyages that spread China's fame throughout Asia
Who is Zheng He?
The italian sailor who corrected Columbus's mistake, acknowledging the coasts of america as a new world. America is named after him
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
The route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade
What is the Middle Passage?
This conquistador explored central Mexico and destroyed the largest civilization in Mesoamerica in less than two years.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
Triangular sail that was developed in Indian Ocean trade that allowed a ship to sail against the wind.
What are Lateen Sails?
Connected China, India, and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
What is the Silk Road?
In 1497 he claimed Canada for England.
Who was John Cabot?
Daily Double: Wager between 0 and 1,000.
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
What is Mercantilism?
Conquistador who explored modern day Peru and conquered and destroyed the Inca civilization.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
German cartographer who first named the New World "America"
Who was Martin Waldseemuller?
Sailed around the southern tip of Africa and back to Europe. First explorer to discover this southern route to the East.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
Explored Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth
Who was Ponce de Leon?
A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa
What is the Triangular Trade?
This was the imaginary boundary, set by the pope, between which lands Spain could claim and those of Portugal.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
Founded in 1602 it was the first multinational corporation that sold stock shares and trade and production outpost on every continent.
What was the Dutch East India Company?
How did Eastern cultures like China and Japan respond to European exploration and trade.
What is became isolationists and forbid most Europeans from entering?
The name given by Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown to most Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus
What is the New World?
List three consequences to the "New World" as a result of the Columbian exchange
What are:
Small pox, syphillis and other diseases
Slavery
Native populations destroyed through warfare
Exploitation
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