Exploration 1
The main motivations behind exploration.
What are the 3 G’s: Gold, glory, God?
Refers to a period in history, roughly from the 15th to the 17th centuries, during which European powers embarked on extensive ocean journeys to explore, map, and establish trade routes to distant lands across the globe.
What is the Age of Exploration?
The trading of plants, animals, foods, diseases, and ideas that occurred between the New World and Old World following Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The sea route across the Atlantic Ocean that millions of enslaved Africans were forced to take during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
Refers to a king or a queen.
What is a monarch?
One of the 3 G’s that symbolizes the motives of European explorers to spread Christianity around the world during the Age of Exploration.
What is God?
This explorer sailed on behalf of Spain during the Age of Exploration. In his first voyage, he attempted to reach Asia by traveling west across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Columbus?
Things that were traded during the Columbian Exchange (list at least 5).
What are diseases, plants, animals, ideas, cultures, and manufactured goods?
The main reason behind why Europeans enslaved Africans in the American colonies during the Age of Exploration.
What are economic reasons?
A form of government where the monarch holds total power and is not bound by a constitution, laws, or checks and balances.
What is an absolute monarchy?
One of the 3 G’s that symbolizes the economic motives behind European exploration during the Age of Exploration.
What is gold?
A highly sought after good from Asia. Europeans wanted to find a sea route to Asia so that they could trade for this.
What are spices?
The place that benefited from new goods during the Columbian Exchange.
What is the whole world?
The number of enslaved Africans who were forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean through the Middle Passage.
How many is 12.5 million?
A form of government where a monarch shares power and authority with elected representatives and a constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
One of the 3 G’s that symbolizes the pursuit of prestige, fame, and national honor that motivated European explorers and monarchs during the Age of Exploration.
What is glory?
This was the first European country to establish a trade route by sea to India/Asia during the Age of Exploration.
What is Portugal?
The percentage of Native Americans who died from the spread of disease due to the Columbian Exchange.
What is 80-90%?
The reason why European colonizers prioritized the quantity of enslaved people on each ship, rather than the quality of conditions during the Middle Passage.
Why were enslaved people traded and sold as goods?
The idea that a monarch’s authority to rule over people is granted by God. Therefore, the monarch only answers to God–and not their subjects.
What is divine right?
The economic policy that emerged in Europe during the Age of Exploration that aimed to increase a country’s wealth and power through trade relationships and establishing colonies for economic benefit.
What is mercantilism?
Due to its success in exploration and colonization, this was the most powerful country in Europe during the Age of Exploration.
What is Spain?
Refers to the interconnectedness and integration of societies, economies, and cultures across different regions of the world resulting from increased global interaction. An example of this during the Age of Exploration is the Columbian Exchange.
What is globalization?
The industries that enslaved Africans were forced to work in after arriving in the New World.
What is farming and mining?
These two English monarchs agreed to share power with a constitution, thereby turning England into a constitutional monarchy.
Who is William and Mary?