Age of Exploration
The alternative way of describing The Middle Ages
What is Dark Ages
This guy was on a mission to convert natives to the church so so they could be controlled by the church
Who was Father Serra
North and South America wer thought to be almost empty befgore the coming of the Europeans but this was not true. There were believe to be how may people already here
What is 40 million people
This country passes raw materials such as sugar, tobacco, cotton, rice, and furs, as well as lumber, indigo, and agricultural products like dried fruit and fish
What are the Americas
Christopher Columbus thought he landed here but he actually landed in the Bahamas
What is the Indies
Who Were the Portuguese
What is Russia
Queen Elizabeth, who was a protestant hired this guy, who was a privateer to target Spanish ships. She especially wanted to target these ships because Prince Phillip of Spain treated the natives horribly and tricked them into becoming a part of the church.
Who is Sir Frances Drake
This country sent manufactured goods and weapons to Africa during the Triangle Trade
What is Europe
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
The guy that only taught but never had the chance to go on a sea voyage
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator
This man was at one time know for begin a bad guy that did not listen to his mothers Christian teaches of the bible. A horrible storm and near death experience made him rethink his mothers teaching and he began to follow the Lord and become a Minister
Who is John Newton
This privateer was know for naming Canada. Word was Kanata and means "settlement."
Who is Jacques Cartier
This country sold their own people for $$$
What is Africa
Major cops and goods that were found on Spanish ships
What were gold, solver, sugar, cotton, coffee, among other things.
The first guy to take off from Spain, not knowing if he may fall off the Earth
Who was Christopher Columbus
He followed John Newtons teachers because of how sincerly he spoke about the Lord. He became a part of Parliament and helped eliminate the Slave trade industry with the Antislavery Bill
Who is William Willberforce
A branch of Christianity, originating from the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century where the Bible is the ultimate authority. These include for example, Baptist, Methodist, Luterans, Presbyterian, Pentacostal.
What is a Protestant
Approximately how many African people were forcibly transported across the Atlantic during the entire period of the trade.
What is 10-12 million
What country hired Christopher Columbus for his first voyage?
What is Spain
What are spices
This guy wrote Amazing Grace
Who is John Newton
In the 1500s, Credited for founding Quebec and the first to explore the great lakes and a major lake that runs through New York and Vermont.
Who was Samuel De Champlain
The "tavern of the seas" was not a tavern in the literal sense, but a metaphor for a pivotal location within the global trade system that was linked to and built upon the institution of the transatlantic slave trade.
What is the Cape of Good Hope
Early- mid 15th Century people were superstitious about the world. Why were they scared to sail to unknown territories?
What is - they were afraid they would fall off the world and they were afraid of monsters.