Vocabulary/Terms
What is the "Old World"? What is the "New World?"
Old World = Europe
New World = The Americas
This person was the first person to try and find a route to India by sailing West in 1492. He then discovered the "New World".
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This group of people were used for slavery before people from Africa?
Who are the Native Americans?
The Columbian Exchange was a trading of food/animals/goods between these two places.
What are the Old World and the New World.
This is when a country establishes control over a distant land and has power over its people and resources.
What is colonialism?
A Conquistador is...
A Spanish explorer that came and conquered lands in the America's for Spain.
This person was a Portuguese explorer who is credited with being the first person to sail all around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Middle Passage is...
What is the Middle Portion of the Triangle Trade when enslaved Africans were forced on ships heading to the New World?
This was the worst thing that traveled from the Old World to the New World on the Columbian Exchange.
What is disease (smallpox)?
Why did the Age of Exploration start?
Europeans wanted to find a faster route to Asia in order to trade for rare goods/resources.
What is an astrolabe?
A tool that many explorers used that uses the stars/astronomy to help make measurements for navigation.
This person was the first explorer who founded a sea route from Europe to India by the way of the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
Africans were targeted for slavery because.... (2 reasons)
What is (1) African were already exposed to the diseases that wiped out the Native Americans and (2) slavery was already seen in Africa through the spread of Islam.
__________ was from Europe and _____________ was from the Americas, but these two crops would lead to large plantations being made to grow these crops in the New World.
After the New World Was discovered, this became the slogan for explorers that showed their reasoning for exploration.
What is "For Gold! For God! For Glory!"?
These are triangular-shaped sails that were used on the ships during the Age of Exploration.
What are Lateen Sails?
This French explorer is the first European to make French claims in North America, navigate the Lawrence River, and is even credited with naming Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
About __________% of slaves did not survive the Middle Passage and about ____________ million slaves were sent to the New World by the Middle Passage.
What is 20% and 15-20 million?
These two food items were the most important goods traded East in the Columbian Exchange?
What are Potatoes and Corn?
The Triangle Trade sent ____________ to Africa, slaves to the Americas, and ____________ to Europe.
What are manufactured goods and natural resources?
What is Mercantilism?
The economic practice where a country's power is based on how much gold or silver they have. The goal is to have more exports (selling goods) than imports (buying goods).
This English explorer circumnavigated the world and found the Straits of Magellan and explored parts of the New World.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
The Atlantic Slave Trade's effects were... (2 effects)
What are the loss of many cultures and generations in the continent of Africa and an African Diaspora (the spreading of African culture all of the world).
These are long term effects of the Columbian Exchange. (There are multiple, but I only need two)
Increase in food supply and then population
Population shifts due to migration to the New World
New Food/Animals being introduced to new parts of the world
Disease coming to the Americas and wiping out large numbers of Native Americans
It lead to the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Conquistadors were able to take over land so quickly in Central and South America because...
What is because disease wiped out major populations of the Native Americans and led to less of an enemy force to fight?