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Technology/explorers
AOE Themes
AOE
Slave Trade
Meso
100

3 navigational technologies that aided explorers during the AOE

What are

1. Maps

2. Astrolabe

3. Magnetic Compas

100
What are the 3 motivations behind the Age of Exploration?

What is 

God, Glory, and Gold

100

What is the Columbian Exchange?

what is

The exchange of resources between the old and new world

100

What is the forced naval migration of African slaves to colonized lands in the New World to produce resources for the colonizers' main land called?

What is 

The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

100

This conquistador conquered the Inca empire, leading to a weakening government and a native population decrease. 

Who is

Piazzaro

200

This traveler is credited for being the first one to circumnavigate the world.

Who is

Magellan

200
This was the main culprit for the population decrease of native cultures during the AOE

What is

Disease

200

These continents make up the Old World.

Asia, Europe, Africa

200

The death rate on slave ships.

What is

25%

200

This ancient civilization is known for its giant head sculptures of what historians theorize to be great leaders of the native people.

Who are 

The Olmecs

300

This explorer sailed west to find a trade route to Asia but accidentally ended up discovering the New World.

Who is 

C. Columbus

300

What was commonly used as a motive to justify actions (exploration/ slavery) during the AOE?

What is 

Religion/ Christianity & Catholicism 

300

What do you call some one who converts non-believers to their religion.

What is

A missionary

300

What cash crop was introduced to the Bahamas and acted as a catalyst for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?

What is

Sugar Cane

300
This ancient civilization is known for its ceremonial practices atop their temples that often included human life sacrifices. 

Who are 

The Aztecs

400

These were agricultural advancements in the Aztec civilization that created floating farming beds.

What are Chinampas

400

Why did explorers initially head west during the start of the AOE?

To find trade routes to Asia

400

An economic policy where the mother country chooses to export more and import less

What is

Mercantilism

400

These are what the British called their slave ships during the AOE.

What are

Brookes

400

Which ancient civilization was Montezuma the last emperor of?

Who are

The Aztecs

500

This empire is associated with building rope bridges. 

What is 

The Inca Empire

500

China and Japan both chose this policy around the start of the AOE

Isolationism

500
This was a sign of respect in China that involved a person bowing down with their head to the floor.

What is

KowTow

500

This was the largest slave port in present-day North America

What is 

Charleston (Charles Town) SC.

500

This ancient civilization was known for its agricultural advancements such as domesticating the cultivation of maize.

Who are

The Mayans