Christopher Columbus
Motivations for Exploration
Columbian Exchange
Triangular Trade & Middle Passage
Mercantilism
Key Empires
100

This explorer is credited with discovering lands in the Americas in 1492.Who is Christopher Columbus?

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

This three-word phrase summarizes the main reasons European explorers set sail.

What is "God, Glory, and Gold"?

100

This term describes the exchange of goods, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

100

This describes the trade system between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

What is the Triangular Trade?

100

This economic system was based on using colonies to make the mother country rich.

What is Mercantilism?

100

This empire, which ruled China during 1450-1750, was known for being very large and diverse.

What is the Qing Dynasty?

200

Columbus was originally looking for a faster trade route to this place.

What is Asia?

200

Europeans were motivated to spread this religion during exploration.

What is Christianity?

200

This crop, introduced to Europe from the Americas, helped increase populations.

What is Corn?

200

Enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic to the Americas on this voyage.

What is the Middle Passage?

200

Under Mercantilism, countries tried to export these and import as little as possible.

What are goods/products?

200

This European empire grew very rich from its colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean.

What is the Spanish Empire?

300

What Country funded Columbus' voyage?

What is Spain?

300

This economic belief system motivated European countries to explore and gain colonies.

What is Mercantilism?

300

This deadly disease, brought by Europeans, killed many Native Americans.

What is smallpox?

300

European ships brought enslaved people from this continent to the Americas.

What is Africa?

300

Colonies sent these kinds of materials, like sugar and cotton, to their mother countries.

What are raw materials?

300

The Spanish Empire conquered these two Native American empires in the Americas.

What are the Aztec and Inca Empires?

400

Columbus' arrival in the New World negatively affected Native Americans by?

What is spreading diseases?

400

Many explorers wanted to find new trade routes to this part of the world for spices and riches.

What is Asia?

400

This animal, introduced by Europeans, changed Native American life, especially for hunting.

What is the horse?

400

Enslaved Africans were forced to work on plantations growing this major cash crop in the Americas.

What is cotton or tobacco?

400

European nations set up colonies to get raw materials and maximize profits by controlling this aspect of trade.

What is exporting more than importing (or maximizing exports)?

400

The Qing Dynasty expanded inland and established control over this region, while growing trade.

What is Central Asia?

500

Columbus' discovery led to more of these types of Journeys to the New World.

What are explorations?
500

European explorers wanted their countries to be richer and stronger than others. This motivation is often summed up by one word.

What is glory?

500

These two crops from the Americas became important in Europe after the Columbian Exchange.

What are potatoes and corn?

500

Ships from the Americas brought these resources back to Europe as part of the trade system.

What are raw materials (like sugar, cotton, tobacco)?

500

Under Mercantilism, colonies could only trade with this country.

What is the mother country (or Europe)?

500

By the 1700s, this European empire had colonies in the Americas, the Caribbean, and parts of Africa.

What is the British Empire?