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Age of Exploration
Columbian Exchange
Triangular Trade
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Who is credited with founding the New World?
Christopher Columbus
100
What two countries led the Age of Exploration?
Portugal and Spain
100
What where the 3 main "push and pull" factors that fueled the age of exploration?
Gold, God, & Glory
100
What happened to the world population during the Columbian Exchange?
It boomed
100
What was the route from Africa to the Americas called in the Triangular Trade?
The Middle Passage
200
Who is responsible for killing off the Aztecs and claiming Mexico for Spain?
Hernan Cortes
200
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas decide?
That the Spanish would control the Western Hemisphere (the Americas) and the Portuguese would get the Eastern Hemisphere (India, Africa, ect)
200
A new piece of technology used by sailors to calculate their latitude
Astrolabe
200
What countries were a part of the the Triangular Trade?
Europe, Africa, and the Americas
200
What was the main source of commodities for African slaves?
Weapons and other manufactures goods
300
Who was the explorer that sailed for Portugal, finding a direct route to India and mapped out the African coast?
Vasco De Gama
300
Describe the Middle Passage. (What is it, how were conditions?)
The second leg of the Triangular Trade route. It carried enslaved people from Africa to the Americas. The trip was long and hard with at least 20% dying before the completed it.
300
What effect did the Columbian exchange have on the native population?
Diseases
300
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The transfer of goods, diseases and people between the Old and New World
300
Why did the settlers want slaves?
To work the farms and increase amount of cultivated raw materials
400
Who sailed for the Ming Dynasty, finding new goods and technology?
Zheng He
400
What were some of the foods brought from the New World to the Old World?
400
What does this picture represent?
The Caravel Ship
400
What part of the world was considered the "Old World" and which part was considered to be the "New World"?
West side was the new World, East side was the Old World
400
Who was responsible for starting the Age of Exploration and the Transatlantic Trade?
The Portuguese
500
Who was the new world named after? He was responsible for mapping out the coast line of the Americas, arguing that Columbus had found a new world and not India.
Amerigo Vespucci
500
Who was the first Explorer to circumnavigate the world, proving it was round?
Ferdinan Magellan
500
Who settled most of the South Western part of the Americas?
The Spanish
500
The Columbian Exchange led to the Triangular Trade which fueled the idea of Mercantilism. What is Mercantilism?
The idea that there is only so much wealth in the world, to be on the best side of mercantilism you want to establish a favorable balance of trade.
500
What is the difference between the Columbian Exchange and the Triangular Trade?
The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of raw materials from Old World to New, the Triangular Trade was the exchange of slaves for raw and finished materials.