Motivations
This main motivation for exploration was especially true for Spain, who wished to spread the "word".
What is the desire to spread Christianity.
In 1492, Columbus launched the age of exploration and discovery with this seminal event.
What is the discovery of the Americas.
Prior to the 1400s, many Europeans viewed the world as being this.
What is flat.
The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of plants, animals, and this between the Old World and the New World.
What are germs/disease.
This European state under Prince Henry the Navigator was the first to embark on overseas exploration.
What is Portugal.
Part of the economic motivation for exploration and discovery was driven by this economic theory, which measured the wealth of a country by how much gold and silver it accumulated through trade.
What is mercantilism.
This divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas.
European interest in finding new trade routes and establishing overseas colonies converged with growth of knowledge about geography and this.
What is navigation.
Some of the most devastating things introduced by Europeans into the New World were these two things, which led to the decimation of native populations.
What are smallpox and the measles.
This European state was late to the game during the age of exploration and discovery, but eventually established their first colony of Jamestown in 1607.
What is England.
A major reason that European states sought alternatives trade routes was that this empire controlled routes around and through the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Ottoman Empire.
The period of time known for discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudalism, the invention of the mariner's compass, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper and the printing press.
What is the Renaissance
European explorers were aided by the emergence of these detailed charts (which were actually early maps) that gave sailors accurate information about the location and distances between European ports.
What are portolani.
The growth of this barbaric practice of exchanging human beings through the process known as triangular trade was a result of the Columbian Exchange.
What is the Slave Trade.
Christopher Columbus, an explorer and navigator from the Italian city-state of Genoa, was funded by this European state in his voyages to the Americas.
What is Spain.
This motivation for exploration and discovery sought to enhance the power and prestige of monarchs and emerging centralized states.
What is glory.
What was the period of time called that officially began in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. This period is thought of as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes. In addition, some explorers set sail to simply learn more about the world.
What is The Age of Exploration or known as The Age of Discovery.
This type of technology helped European explorers overpower and intimidate native peoples they encountered.
What is military technology.
This effect of the Columbian Exchange resulted in the need for additional labor and therefore the growth of the African slave trade.
What is the decimation of native populations.
The Dutch, as master shipbuilders, became a maritime powerhouse and formed these two trading entities to become a leading economic state in the 16th and 17th centuries.
What are the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company.
Part of the economic motivation for exploration and discovery was based on the idea that it was beneficial for a state to export more goods than it imported, known as this.
What is favorable balance of trade.
One major effect of the age of exploration and discovery is that European power shifted from the Mediterranean world to this new area.
What is the Atlantic.
This tool helped European explorers to determine latitude more accurately, and originally came from Muslim navigators.
What is the astrolabe.
The establishment of these to cultivate products like sugar, coffee, cotton, and tobacco created enormous wealth for Europeans.
What are plantations.
The location of this modern-day country was the only territory claimed and controlled by the Portuguese in all of the Americas during the age of exploration and discovery.
What is Brazil.