Vocabulary
The continents that make up the "New World"
The Americas (North, Central, South)
A journey to acheive a goal
Expedition
Spanish explorers who journeyed to the New World for God, Gold, and Glory
Conquistadors
The massive exchange of agricultural goods, ideas, slave labor, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that occurred after the year 1492.
Columbian Exchange
When a person owns another person as property and the enslaved person has no freedom or rights
slavery
The continents that make up the "Old World"
Asia, Europe, Africa
A time period from 1300-1600 in which people became more interested in the world and finding new lands and shorter trade routes.
Age of Exploration
The 3 G's of Exploration
God, Gold, and Glory
These were the negatives of the Columbian Exchange
The enslaving and trading of humans, and epidemics caused by disease
These continents were a part of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Europe, Africa, The Americas
The massive exchange of agricultural goods, ideas, slave labor, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that occurred after the year 1492.
Columbian Exchange
The countries that were involved in the quest for new land during the Age of Exploration
Portugal, Spain, France, Britain
In search of a shorter route to Asia but miscalculates and lands in the Bahamas, colonizing the Caribbean Islands.
Christopher Columbus
Person who the Columbian Exchange is named for
Christopher Columbus
This area of Africa was where 10-12 million people were forcibly taken from to be enslaved in the New World
Western Africa
Relating to the history and cultures of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Pre-Columbian
This new type of technology helped increase and expand exploration
Navigational
Circumnavigates the world, maps out how many miles the world is, and establishes the first Spanish colonies in the Pacific Islands.
Ferdinand Magellan
These were some of the major exports from the new world that benefitted people in the old world
Tomatoes, beans and potatoes
This is the reason that Europeans created the Atlantic Slave Trade
Increased colonization in the New World with the goal of gaining more resources and money (unpaid labor)
The practice of bringing people from a different country to control and settle an area that already has an indigenous population.
Colonization
The blocking of the Silk Road by the Ottoman Empire led to European countries doing this
Finding a Westward sea route to Asia
Goes exploring for the Fountain of Youth (or more likely gold) and becomes the first Europeans to explore Florida
Juan Ponce De Leon
These were some of the major exports from the old world that benefitted people in the new world
Sugar, coffee and pigs
The written experience by Olaudah Equiano that documented his experience of being enslaved and brought to the Americas is this type of SOURCE
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