Motivations / Obstacles
Results
Explorers
Places
West Africa and the Slave Trade
100
The three motivations for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration (known as the three G's).
To find gold, explore (find new trade routes) and spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)
100
This is one positive result that came from the Age of Exploration.
(answers vary)
100
This explorer followed the route of the red arrow.
Who is Cabot?
100
This country mainly settled on the east coast of North America.
What is England?
100
Name two of the three West African empires that we studied.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
200
This disease was once widespread among sailors until they discovered that eating citrus fruit prevented it.
What is scurvy.
200
This is one example of how the Age of Exploration resulted in an exchange of IDEAS between Europeans and the Native Americans.
What is Europeans sharing Christianity with Native Americans OR Native Americans sharing farming techniques with Europeans?
200
This explorer followed the route of the blue arrow.
Who is Champlain?
200
In the area that is now the United States, this country mainly settled on the west coast and Florida.
What is 'Spain'?
200
These two products brought great economic benefit to Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
What are Gold and salt?
300
Name two of the obstacles to the Age of Exploration.
What are poor maps, poor navigation tools, the fear of the unknown, a lack of supplies, disease, and starvation?
300
Name something that resulted in conflict when the Europeans interacted with Native Americans?
(answers could vary)
What is the spread of disease, conflict over land, etc.?
300
This explorer followed the route of the purple arrow.
Who is Coronado?
300
This country mainly settled in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley region.
What is France?
300
This letter on the map below shows approximately where the African empires we studied are located.
What is B?
400
These were two natural resources Europeans found in North America.
(answers will vary)
400
This is one of the goods Europeans traded to the Native Americans.
What are metal tools? (other answers are acceptable)
400
This explorer followed the route of the brown arrow.
Who is LaSalle?
400
During exploration, this European country settled in the area that is now New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
What is the Netherlands (Holland)?
400
The first enslaved people were brought to Jamestown in this year.
What is 1619?
500
Wanting to find gold, wanting to find natural resources, and wanting trading partners were all what kind of motivation for exploration?
What is economic?
500
This nation established a treaty with the Iroquois to control the fur trade.
What is the Dutch (Holland or the Netherlands)?
500
This person was trying to sail west to Asia but landed in the Caribbean instead.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
500
This European country established trade with West Africa
What is Portugal?
500
Give a reason that European colonies in North America, South America, and the Caribbean had such a strong need for slave labor.
What is they needed a cheap source of labor in order to survive?