Review: Explorers
This Italian explorer who sailed for Spain intended to reach India and establish a new trade route, but instead landed in the “New World” in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was called this SHAPE, due to how many stops it took
What is a triangle?
The Native American population massively and rapidly fell due mostly to "this disease" brought by the Europeans
What is smallpox?
This device has a magnetized needle over a card showing four or eight points of direction.
What is a compass?
These are the three motivations for European exploration.
What are God, gold, and glory?
This Portuguese explorer’s crew led the first circumnavigation of the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The suffering of these captured people along the Middle Passage was ignored for economic benefit.
Who are Africans?
This crop originated in the New World, and became the single most important crop in promoting large population growth in Europe.
What are potatoes?
This device, one-fourth of a full circle, was used by sailors to measure the height of Polaris, the Pole star.
What is a quadrant?
This ship was faster than others of their time. They were favored by pirates.
What is a caravel?
This Chinese explorer and commander of huge treasure ships led voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, & East Africa.
Who is Zheng He?
Captured Africans were often previously enslaved by these people before being sold to Europeans
Who are Africans?
Europeans imported this crop from the New World, which over time killed more European people than war and disease combined
What is tobacco?
This device was used to record the direction a ship was sailing along with the corresponding speed of the ship.
What is a traverse board?
This ship was a favorite of explorers as it was cheap to crew.
What is a carrack ship?
This English sea captain was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. He helped defeat the Spanish Armada, securing English naval dominance.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
This continent profited the most from the Triangle Trade system.
What is Europe?
Captured Africans were brought to the Caribbean to cultivate this crop against their will.
What is sugar?
This device was a navigation tool used for taking the altitude of the sun or stars while at sea.
What is a mariner's astrolabe?
This French explorer sought a western passage to Asia, and claimed modern-day Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This Spanish conquistador explored and conquered Mexico for Spain, and founded Mexico City.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
These were the countries who brought the most enslaved people to the “New World”. (Name three )
Who are Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, and Holland?
Native Americans transmitted this lethal sexually transmitted disease to Europeans.
What is syphillis?
This ship, shaped like a bathtub, was a supply ship in peace times, but a war ship in times of trouble.
What is a galleon ship?
These were the lasting effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Africa (Name three)
What are Generational Trauma, Colonialism, Economic Devastation, Lack of ethnic diversity, Lack of trust in institutions, Conflict, HIV & Disease, and Polygamy?