Atlantic Trade
These were taken from Africa and sold to buyers and plantations in the Americas.
Slaves
France
Who was the Genoese explorer that discovered the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
This conquistador landed in present day Mexico and conquered the Aztec Empire.
Hernan Cortes
European traders wanted these items from the East.
Spices, silks, gems, perfumes, and other materials.
This is the first term for the continents of North and South America during exploration.
New World
This explorer sailed for England and claimed parts of Canada for them.
John Cabot
What country did Columbus sail for when he found the Americas?
Spain
Give me two reasons why Europeans were able to conquer Native Americans.
Diseases, weapons, horses, armor, and other Native Americans.
This is a piece of land that is claimed by another country for their resources.
Colony
What were the three main reasons that explorers explored for European countries?
Vasco da Gama was the first European to make it to this land, which enabled better trading with the East.
India
This trading system was created after the discovery of the New World.
Bartolomeu Dias was the first to sail to this southern tip of Africa.
Cape of Good Hope
This term describes explorers that were paid by the Spanish crown to explore lands.
Conquistador
What are three things that were specifically found in the Old World?
Cattle, sheep, pigs, coffee, sugar, onions, etc.....
Ferdinand Magellan
How many journeys to the new world did Columbus make?
4
This conquistador traveled to Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from America.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
This man mapped the coast of South America and had the land named after him.
This is the term for the trading of people, goods, and money between the 3 continents of the Atlantic
Triangular Trade
This term is used when an explorer sails across the entire globe.
Circumnavigate
What are 3 different groups of items that were traded between the Old World and the New World?
Food, Animals, People, Diseases.
Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida and searched for what mystical place?
Fountain of Youth
This economic idea believed that a country's power and wealth came from their materials that were exported and imported.