Age Of Conquest And Exploration Flashcards
What is a Caravel?
A Caravel is a type of ship large and sturdy enough to make long voyages and sail in all winds.
What is a Conquistadores?
Conquistadores is a type of ship large and sturdy enough to make long voyages and sail in all winds.
What is Colonisation?
Colonisation is When a country takes over another territory and settles some of its own people there to control it
What is a Slavery Triangle?
A Slavery Triangle is the trade triangle whereby ships delivered African slaves to the Americas, American goods to Europe, and European-manufactured goods back to Africa
What is Colombian Exchange?
Colombian Exchange is the exchange of foods, animals and technologies between Europe and the Americas
When did the Age of Exploration and Conquest start?
15th and 16th centuries
What are the reasons the Age Of Conquest And Exploration began?
The Influence of Renaissance: An ancient Roman book of maps, GEOGRAPHIA by Ptolemy was REDISCOVERED. This Helped people LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD.
Marco Polo: He WROTE A BOOK about his TRAVELS in CHINA and ELSEWHERE. The book had STORIES about incredible WEALTH he had seen there. The book INSPIRED PEOPLE TO EXPLORE
New Trade Routes:TRADING SPICES AND SILK FROM ASIA was VERY PROFITABLE. AFTER the BLACK DEATH Europes POPULATION GREW AND BECAME WEALTHIER SO their was MORE DEMAND. IF you FOUND A NEW AND FASTER WAY TO ASIA you could GET VERY RICH
What did Prince Henry the Navigator do?
He set up a Navagtion school at SAGRES
What did Bartolomeu Dias do and when?
In 1487 he rounded the southern tip of Africa
What did Vasco Da Gama do and when?
In 1497 he sailed up Africas East Coast and onward to Calicut in India. It took 2 years
