Explorers
Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.
Who is Christopher Columbus
Three main reasons for the increased demand in manufactured goods were increased population, cheaper food costs, and the creation of this group of people who had extra money to spend
What is the middle class
To better spread Christianity AND language, European missionaries opened these in the Americas
What are schools
Often referred to as "push factors", these gave explorers the ability to go further than they ever had before
What are advances in navigation technology
A type of industry where wealthy business people give raw goods to families to produce manufactured goods to be sold
What is cottage industry
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
An economic system where the mother country controls all aspects of money and trade in the colonies, including what, who, and how much they trade for
What is mercantilism
Name two technologies that Europeans introduced to America during the Columbian Exchange
What are steel and working animals
The three PULL factors led to explorers wanting to leave their homes and go out into the world? Must give all three.
What are curiosity, spread Christianity, and a new route to Asia for cheaper spices.
Name three inventions that helped explorers navigate better
What are astrolabes, sextants, compasses, hourglass, upgraded maps
a Portuguese explorer, soldier and prince. Although he rarely participated in explorations, he sent many expeditions from Portugal to the west coast of Africa, and was responsible for Portugal’s influence in the Great Age of Exploration. His school of navigation resulted in a breakthrough for Portuguese navigation.
Who is Prince Henry (Henry the Navigator)
An economic system where production and prices are determined by open competition with other businesses or companies
What is market economy
This was the MAIN reason that slave labor in the Americas shifted from Native Americans to Africans
What is Africans were immune to the European diseases
Francis Drake and Henry Hudson attempted voyages to America looking for this fabled passage
What is the Northwest Passage
This event is often considered the beginning of the end of the country of Spain being the number one power in the world
What is the defeat of the Spanish Armada
He was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India. His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation.
Who is Vasco da Gama
The Dutch government limiting the type of jobs they could do and Christians not being allowed to lend money at the time led the incoming Jewish people into this new industry
What is banking
Name THREE plants that were introduced FROM America TO Europe
What are tobacco, sweet potato, avocado, peppers, peanuts, potato, tomato, corn, beans, vanilla, pumpkin, squash, pineapple
Unlike the Spanish and Portuguese, these two nations established good relations with the Natives when they arrived in America
Who are France and England
These people get to set the price in a market economy
Who are private business owners
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa, Dias opened the doors for seafaring trade with India.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias
The two ways in which the Atlantic slave trade was different from the trading of slaves that came before it
What is the size/amount of slaves traded and the conditions
Name THREE animals that were introduced TO America FROM Europe
What are cows, sheep, pigs, horses, oxen
Mapmakers used this type of information to begin to draw more accurate maps
What is explorers descriptions of new lands
Christianity was accepted by Native Americans by doing this
What is blending existing cultural practices with new Christian beliefs