Age Of Exploration Flashcards
Cabral
Took Brazil(Portugal)
Cartier
Claims Saint Lawrence River and New France(France)
Dias
Goes to Southern tip of Africa and calls it the Cape of Storms(Portugal)
Magellan
First to go around the world(Spain)
Colombous
Idea of northwest passage but underestimates the size of earth; begins world dominance by Europeans(Spain)
Hudson
Claimed Hudson River called new Netherlands(Netherlands)
De Gama
First water route to India(Portugal)
Cabot
Claimed Nova Scotia and Newfoundland(England)
Cortes
Good luck: malinche, Quetzalcoatl, native allies
Captured and killed Monetzuma
Wins battle of Tenochtitlan
Atlantic Slave Trade
Old type- POW who were usually set free
Cause- economics
Triangular trade- Europe> Africa> America
Results- death/displacement of Afticans, new race(Latino/Hispanic), racism
Balboa
Claims South Sea(Spain)