People
Terms
Causes
Effects
Sources
100
This man thought he had reached islands off of the coast of India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This term literally means to circle the earth by ship.
What is CIRCUMNAVIGATION?
100
Encouraged the sense of adventure, curiosity and desire for trade.
What is a motivation for exploration?
100
A shortage of cheap/free labor occurred when this group of people died in large numbers.
What is the Native Americans?
100
economic system where trade and industry privately owned and invested in.
What is capitalism?
200
North and South America are named after this explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
An extremely common sea vessel, smaller in size but favored for it speed
What are sloops?
200
Portugal financing the voyages of Dias and Da Gama
What is to form a direct sea trading route with Asia?
200
The Columbian Exchange was more favorable for THIS "World."
What is the Old World?
200
This was sent from Europe to Africa.
What are guns, cloth, iron, beer?
300
This explorer conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
300
Small portions of land owned by another country, usually distant, and occupied by settlers from that country
What are colonies?
300
The "three Gs"
What are GOD, GLORY, and GOLD?
300
The 3 reasons why Africans were the "logical" answer to the labor shortage in the New World.
What are: 1. Immune to many diseases. 2. Mostly experienced farmers. 3. Unfamiliar with area, so dependent on captors.
300
Settlers seeking religious freedom from the English Anglican Church successfully established a colony in North America due in large part to bringing groups of families over.
Who are the Puritans?
400
This explorer conquered the Incan Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
400
The Spanish system that provided cheap labor (essentially slavery) in the New World by selling land along with the native people who lived on it.
What is ENCOMIENDA?
400
While the idea was already widespread, Columbus was the first one to definitively prove this theory.
What is that the earth is round?
400
This journey is described by both African and White witnesses as horrific.
What is the MIDDLE PASSAGE?
400
This explorer made the longest voyage, first to circumnavigate the earth.
Who is Magellan?
500
Prince of Portugal that founded a navigation school and used his own wealth to fund many voyages
Who is Prince Henry?
500
Widespread transfer of people, plants, animals, diseases, and cultures that greatly affected nearly every society on the planet
What is COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE?
500
This economic system provided the strong motivation to search for gold, leading to exploration.
What is MERCANTILISM?
500
A trade chain called THIS developed as a result of the Age of Exploration.
What is TRIANGULAR TRADE?
500
Cut the New World in half, any territory east of the line would belong to Portugal and any territory west would belong to Spain
What is the Line of Demarcation?