Motivations for European exploration
What were two of the obstacles to exploration
What continents were the New world and Old world
Europe and The Americas
His love for exploration began when he traveled to Morocco with his father, king john
Prince Henry
As they explored the Americas, several European nations set up these
colonies
Before the arrival of European explorers, the indigenous people in the Americas were this from the rest of the world.
isolated
Everyone wanted to extend their power into North America this era in history became known as this, because so many advances in technology and exploration were made during this period.
Age of Discovery/Exploration
Before the arrival of European explorers, the indigenous people in the Americas were this, from the rest of the world.
isolated
As a young man, this explorer studied navigation and cartography on trading ships.
Christopher Columbus
This was a seven-century-long process of taking back Iberia (the peninsula now containing Spain and Portugal) from Muslim people after they took control of the region in 711.
The Reconquista
The Columbian Exchange was named after this person
Christopher Columbus
What were the two things Europe craved from Asia
Silks and Spices
What were the "cash crops"
Tabacco and sugar
This explorer was a merchant and explorer who was born in Italy and he also explored in the Americas from 1497 to 1504.
Amerigo Vespucci
This was a grant of a stated number of indigenous people living in a particular area that the monarchy gave to an official, such as a conquistador or soldier.
An encomienda
Over time, Europe learned which shipping lanes were safest between these two places
Old World and New World
The colonists would sell their crops and minerals to their mother country in Europe. Then the colonies would buy finished goods. What was this economic policy called?
mercantilism
What was the biggest negative effect of the Columbian Exchange
Diseases
This explorer led an expedition of five ships for Spain in 1519. He was trying to find a western sea route to the spice islands.
Ferdinand Magellan
Europe was going through a period of change. During the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s, many people converted from Catholicism to this, a new form of Christianity.
Protestantism
What was the most devastating effect of the Columbian Exchange
Disease
These peoples sought to convert indigenous peoples to Christianity and teach them how to worship like Christian people.(Not a country or continents)
Missionaries
Europe had suffered through several of these, and periods of crop failure. Europe’s farms could not produce enough food to feed its growing population.
famines
This explorer sought his fortune by signing on with a Spanish expedition headed for today’s Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras. He joined the expedition of another explorer, Francisco Pizarro.
Hernando de Soto
He became an outspoken critic of the Encomienda system. He argued that indigenous people were free subjects of the crown, and he tried to convince Spanish rulers that indigenous people had a right to their property.
Bartolome de las Casas
Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, and especially in the 18th century, more than 12 million African people were forcibly taken to the Americas. This process was known as this
the transatlantic slave trade