Vocab
What is the Age of Exploration?
a period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of goods, land, and traders
What does the word mercantilism mean?
economic and political system where the government controls all aspects of trade
What country was Christopher Columbus exploring for?
Spain
When was the Age of Exploration? Give me a rough time period.
1400s-1600s
What is the Columbian Exchange?
a worldwide exchange of diseases, plants, animals, and humans between the Old World and the New World
What is a caravel?
Portuguese ship that was faster and easier to sail than older styles of ships
What is an astrolabe?
navigation tool that was used to measure latitude at sea
Why did people want to explore at this time? What is one example of what they were looking for?
Gold, trade routes to Asia, land, goods, traders
Name 3 out of the 5 countries that were involved with the Age of Exploration.
France, Portugal, Spain, England, Holland
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
The trade of millions of Africans as slaves through the Middle Passage (route they took to the Americas)
What does the word migration mean?
the movement of people from one place to another to live, work, or find something better
What is a magnetic compass?
navigation tool that was used to check direction of the true north
Which explorer was the first to see the Grand Canyon and Colorado River?
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
Name one factor that contributed to the Age of Exploration.
New technology, wanted new trade routes to Asia, mercantilism (trading)
12%
What is globalization?
when different parts of the world become connected through trade, cultures, and people
What is enslavement?
when a person owns another person as property
What country did Jacques Cartier explore for?
France
Name one effect of the Age of Exploration and explain what is is.
Answers will vary.
How did the Columbian Exchange affect plants?
led to a population boom and changed the way people farmed
What is the Columbian Exchange?
a worldwide exchange of diseases, plants, animals, and humans between the Old World and the New World
What does the word colonization mean?
to send a group of people to a place and establish political control over that land
What explorer was looking for the Fountain of Youth?
Juan Ponce de Leon
Name one effect of the Age of Exploration and explain what it is.
Answers will vary.
How did the Columbian Exchange affect diseases?
80% of Native Americans died from exposure to European diseases